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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
dear @Johnny and @Guido
I'm not sure this is the right thread for you to discuss other the minute details of that functionality.
People upping this post are talking about another way to filter things out since the selective sync is not meeting their needs.
cheers
@Eric W
Asking a company (especially a large one) to "just add" a feature, no matter how apparently small, is going to take a long time. Dropbox is so huge, controlling the security of files for so many other large companies, that they need to implement, test and re-test these features to make sure that they won't mess up their infrastructure.
Would a .dropboxignore particularly mess up their entire infrastructure? Probably not. But any feature still has to be designed, user-tested, developed, tested some more, beta released and then production released. Maybe we will get it by next year if they start now!
I agree with Brad.
I would add that it is only logical that Dropbox gives priority to the bulk of their user base, which, I suspect, does not care much about regex or .dropboxignore files.
Yes, we have a thread with many upvotes on the Dropbox forum... but most people using Dropbox do not even know about the existence of the Dropbox forum :-)
Reading this thread I got the idea that many "complainers" are people with a programming background - including me.
Dropbox probably prefers to employ their resources in implementing something that a wider audience would appreciate, e.g. some collaborative feature that I neither understand nor use.
I am saying this just to put things in perspective for those who appear to take it personally: it sucks that Dropbox ignores us, but probably it just means that they are giving precedence to their wider user base.
Cheers,Guido
Make sure you click the original post and vote it up in addition to writing +1.
+1
+1. damn node_modules
EDIT: Tried mega. does what we need, and I like some other features too.
+1
+1 this would be extremely useful
