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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
Still hoping for this feature to come. Though those "filename.dat~" files being uploaded are not technically a problem, they are still a nuisance, some software insists on putting temporary files in the same directory or a subdirectory of the location of the user document, so pattern-based exclusions (e.g. all folders named ".cache" or all files matching "*~") would be quite useful still.
I've seen others ask for a way to have global pattern matching to exclude folders from dropbox, such as node_modules, and other dependancy folder patterns that are better to be reinstalled on each system.
I think the easy solution for this would be for dropbox to include an option to follow .gitignore files if included in a folder. While I don't know the scope of the implementation, for advanced users this would provide an easy way to manage syncing without having to use selective folders.
dman33 wrote:I've seen others ask for a way to have global pattern matching to exclude folders from dropbox, such as node_modules, and other dependancy folder patterns that are better to be reinstalled on each system.
I think the easy solution for this would be for dropbox to include an option to follow .gitignore files if included in a folder. While I don't know the scope of the implementation, for advanced users this would provide an easy way to manage syncing without having to use selective folders.
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.dropboxignore PLEASEplease
Yes +1
My dropbox spends hours at a time looking like this:
And Activity Monitor spends a lot of time looking like this:
My solution: Switched to MEGA, removed dropbox :) Profit + 50Gb Free
