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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
For Vagrant I recommend to check this out: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3362
@Ed, this is not a new issue. I mean no disrespect, but the development has supposedly been looking at this for over a year at least. So can you just give it to us straight please? If this has been ruled out as never gonna happen, I think we'd all just like to know.
I've been using MEGA for a while and so far so good. The sync client provides a feature to exclude files and folders by name. You just add node_modules to the list and the sync client will exclude all occurrences of this name in all your files.
To host private git repos for free I use GitLab.
Don't forget to upvote the original post.
M.S. - we cancelled our business account because of this. Dropbox doesn't work for developers unless you want to waste a lot of time manually setting up selective syncs across 100's of projects and 1000's of folders.
I've also cancelled my business account because of this.
This is a very important feature that is missing. For a developer, there are often projects that require "in-source" builds that are within the source code directory structure. We need a way to automatically exclude these build folders so they don't waste time and bandwidth syncing loads of temporary build files. The .gitignore approach works well and would be a great option.
As with others, I am exploring other options due to the inconvenience and wasted time associated with dealing with this issue.
As a "zero day user" of Dropbox (I felt in love immediately the very first time I used it, and immediately bought a plan, then "bugged" my boss 'till my entire company bought it) I can see as Dropbox is "getting lazy" on new features.
I can understand devs are focused on Paper and such, but some "basic" features, even if targeted to a niche as developers, would really justify the fact that Dropbox is actually the most expensive Cloud Sync solution compared to other competitors.
Please make me feel "content" as before. I really love your reliability and speed, but world is moving on.
Best regards,
an happy customer but unhappy developer.
The guys at DropBox did a great job making sure that MailBox stayed ahead of the game by constantly innov-- Oh wait, no they didn't. I guess DropBox will be the next casualty in their masterplan.
Nice going, guys. Fuelling hatred and frustration among your users is a great strategy!
I will do my best to spread my sense of dissatisfaction far and wide around the internet. You've had more than enough time to make some promises to your maligned user base.
Yes please. I sometimes use DropBox for some lesser programming projects. It's really annoying when all binaries and temporary files are also synced when they most definitely don't need to.
