Hi @cscott,
Currently there isn’t a way around not syncing the blacklisted items without renaming them.
I noticed the example given is part of a VM bundle. is this for VMWare Fusion?
Are you syncing actively used VMs, or are you using odrive for archiving VMs only? The reason I ask is because we recommend not having actively used VM images/bundles inside odrive. Here are some thoughts I wrote on the subject a while ago:
If these are for archival, you could zip/tar/rar the VM bundles up to avoid the blacklisting of the individual files inside.