How to exclude public synonyms from an Oracle DB Import

[stecal]

No, it should just be "synonym" (metadata, not data). You're not excluding the dba_synonyms data dictionary view, but (private) synonyms as a whole. Public synonyms should still be accessible.

  1  SELECT OBJECT_PATH, COMMENTS FROM SCHEMA_EXPORT_OBJECTS
  2* WHERE OBJECT_PATH LIKE '%SYN%' AND OBJECT_PATH NOT LIKE '%/%'
SQL> /

OBJECT_PATH
------------------------------------------------------------------
COMMENTS
------------------------------------------------------------------
SYNONYM
Private synonyms in the selected schemas

Private synonyms only.