Visual studio 2012 and dropbox don't play nice together

Ever since switching to VS 2012, I have a frequently occurring issue where dropbox tries to sync files as VS 2012 is creating them (when adding a project, installing nuget packages, etc...). VS fails because the file(s) are locked. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a way to configure Dropbox to delay sync by a few seconds or some other work around?

Solution 1:

The only alternative for now is to pause syncing while you're working on Visual Studio. Dropbox doesn't have an option now to delay sync. You can pause syncing by right clicking the Dropbox icon & then choose "Pause syncing"

Solution 2:

I have my VS projects in Dropbox and don't have an issue, although I do tend to use selective sync (Dropbox client: Preferences > Account) to exclude the nuget /packages directory along with /obj and /bin to save space and sync "noise"/bandwidth.