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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
I guess the people at dropbox did see this thread, so I thought to tweet it for their convenience:
https://twitter.com/unlucio/status/616141948441628672please RT if you like.
Agreed. There is cold be hidden for advanced users feature. We are all here by '.dropboxignore' keyword. So it wouldn’t be a problem to figure out how it works. Just implement it.
I just have stopped the sync of my Projects folder because it was 3Gb+. Mostly it was .git and node_modules folders. With such setup Dropbox is downloading file list forever. And consuming to much CPU
God I need this so much.
How does Dropbox support quantify demand? +1's here?
I switched over to syncthing just for this feature. It'd be nice to have in dropbox though.
Thanks Johnny.. I hadn't noticed that before.. Just upvoted.
Not that it will help, but I pointed to this thread on Twitter in a public reply to @DropboxSupport
I have an open case on this on the Dropbox help desk, and I pester them every now and then to see how its going. Apparently this forum thread is a footnote on the dev task "improved Selective Sync feature". So please keep voting to try and bring this to the top of the pile.
- Ed
Dropbox Staff
Hello everyone
Thanks so much for the continuous feedback on this feature. We've taken notes of your points and pain points and have passed this on internally. I encourage you to keep letting us know about things you like/dislike or would like to see differently but please not we may not reply to all comments or take immediate actions on anything.
Thanks again,
