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Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync
Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a good explanation of why it's not there. A quick google search reveals loads of people also looking for the same feature. I really like the workflow I have with dropbox, but it's getting to the point where I might switch providers in order to allow better selective sync.
I've seen hackish solutions using selective sync, but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways:
- global pattern matching eg "node_modules"
- a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore
- a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder"
Other than that, keep up the good work. Cheers.
Tom
http://konolige.com/dbignore/ exists for Mac OSX. It's .gitignore for Dropbox, but the instructions are a bit advanced.
Anyone care to figure it out and write simple step-by-step HowTo?
FYI: MEGA does this in a wonderful way! +50GB Free +Linux too! No, I don't work for them. I just don't appreciate organizations that choose to totally ignore the needs of their customers. "It's coming," or "we really don't care what you want" would be considerate.
I would also like to add, that some people may reject our request out of hand as they would say that it promotes an anti pattern for software developers, where you would use Dropbox instead of git, however we (or at least I) have never used Dropbox in place of git and instead use both of them together to compliment one another, where I use Dropbox syncing for myself only and git to mark meaningful changes and share those with others.
This allows me to switch between computers without delay (except for necessary large uploads, hence this thread) and have continuous, instant backups. This also enables me to avoid requiring a commit just to be able to carry my work over from one machine to another, which IMHO is in and of itself an anti pattern as it encourages premature commits.
filesanywhere has had this cool feature for YEARS,
my company used to use their service
this would cut my sync, indexing time in HALF, from 45 minutes to maybe 20 minutes,
so sad Dropbox is not capable of adding this,
they should look into hiring some real coders, developers
Image already addedThe range of temporary files ignored by Dropbox needs to include filenames matching "Unconfirmed*.crdownload". This is the filename assigned by Google when downloading a file and it is renamed to the correct name when download is complete.
Dropbox already ignores certain temporary files created by Microsoft Office, but it should also ignore temporary files from other applications such as Google Chrome. One way would be to give user's the option the add certain filenames to be ignored so that user's can do this themselves.
Recently I started experiencing the problem that when I save images or files from chrome to dropbox, there are ghost crdownload files also that do not dissapear even when the download is complete.
I guess the problem is that when I download a photo.jpg, it immediatelly syncs the photo.crdownload to the cloud and somehow it's not able to delete it soon enough?
Any way to get dropbox to ignore these files and not sync them? Or does someone know how to disable this feature from chrome so that there wont be any crdownload temp files?
Anyone know if this has been looked into as a feature or future idea or is it dead. I recently have ran into my keepass lock file being sync'd and screwing up my keepass because the lock file isn't erased so keepass thinks the password file is still there.
It's be great to setup a black list or ignore list for dropbox to look at when syncing.
thanks
Jeff
I have this problem as well, It's an easy fix as far as I can see to get it to ignore the files, the file type isn't used by any other app/program.
I was looking for a workaround and there are few, if you can limit yourself to linux or mac, but ultimately went with bittorrent sync ... http://peter.grman.at/ignore-node_modules-in-dropbox/
+1000
.dropboxignore or similar would be amazing!
My previous Dropbox replacement when trying to get this feature, BitTorrent Sync, pissed me off tremendously.
Now using SyncThing which is free and open source and has forever changed my idea of what file syncing should be like. Yay!
How they do ignores can be found here, it's awesomely (can I even say that?) close to .gitignore: http://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
