{"id":26162,"date":"2019-08-02T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26162"},"modified":"2019-08-02T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:08:35","slug":"excluding-from-icloud-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/02\/excluding-from-icloud-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Excluding From iCloud Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olebegemann\/status\/1156492136411537408\">Ole Begemann<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olebegemann\/status\/1156492136411537408\">\n<p>Today I learned that if you put a folder named &ldquo;Dropbox&rdquo; in your iCloud Drive, iCloud refuses to upload it. It only says &ldquo;Ineligible&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flovilmart\/status\/1156508134506160128\">flovilmart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flovilmart\/status\/1156508134506160128\">\n<p>I recall de compiling the iCloud Drive binary and seeing &ldquo;Dropbox&rdquo; string part of a blacklist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/a\/295929\">malhal<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1156958801783853057\">Tanner Bennett<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/a\/295929\">\n<p>Here are all the file\/folder names excluded[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/a\/261437\">Nebula<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/a\/261437\"><p>Adding one empty file named <tt>.nosync<\/tt> to a folder will prevent that folder from syncing.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use this as a file extension to specific files, but the folder treatment is quite useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/xattr-flags-and-icloud-drive\/\">xattr Flags and iCloud Drive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Begemann: Today I learned that if you put a folder named &ldquo;Dropbox&rdquo; in your iCloud Drive, iCloud refuses to upload it. It only says &ldquo;Ineligible&rdquo;. flovilmart: I recall de compiling the iCloud Drive binary and seeing &ldquo;Dropbox&rdquo; string part of a blacklist. malhal (via Tanner Bennett): Here are all the file\/folder names excluded[&#8230;] Nebula: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-02T20:08:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"f9b2bf4b-8249-4bbb-8fdc-61ddb9935ade","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-02T20:08:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-bK_S4JJS7uP3GHduZNa3g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,913,30,1609,269],"class_list":["post-26162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-icloud-drive","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26163,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162\/revisions\/26163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}