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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
+1 for .dbignore
+1
Two years and nothing from Dropbox on this?
Node development is PAINFUL - 2 hours for my work machine to sync last night's work from my home machine. TWO HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a necessity for power users. As mentioned by others, some of use have folders with 10000 small files that are updates very frequently but that we don't want to sync. For instance node_modules when working on Node.js projects. Another example is that some of my projects have an sqlite database in the folder that I don't want to sync every 5 seconds because a byte changed somewhere.
It doesn't need to be a complex thing, just for users that know what they are doing.I don't even need a fancy way of defining rules, an easy solution is if a".dropboxignore" file is detected in a folder the folder and it's children could be ignored by dropbox.
+1
I just started toying with React + Redux using a starter project. After nmp install my dropbox started syncing 19 000 + files with no way to exclude node_modules folder. Seriously Dropbox, what are you waiting for? I am paying user of Dropbox for 6 years, can't believe this feature is still missing. Give us .dropboxignore already!+1 please add pattern matching
I'm unsubscribing from this thread as there's really no hope.
Looking for good alternatives to Dropbox.
Will check in a year or two if anything happened.
I have been subscribed to this thread for a year, receiving a couple of hundreds of notifications of people interested in the same feature, and no reaction from Dropbox.
Sadly, there is still no decent alternative to Dropbox, so I will stick with it; still, I am quite surprised at Dropbox lack of concern for the dev community in this case.
