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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 moved to Seafile. I wrote a guide to set up it since it took me far too long to get everything configured
I put in a message to Dropbox support requesting this and linking to this thread so they can see the interest.
Hi Ed, are the dev team aware how much this feature is being requested?
Everyone else: Don't forget to Upvote the original post in this thread to increase the number of votes this issue has!
Thank you for considering it.
Syncing folders like "node_modules" and such is an hassle and make working on distributed code quite impossible. Some of these folders are deep nested. Reading files with the same syntax as .gitignore would be a straightforward and powerful way to manage it.
yeah syncing my 660,000 vendor project files every single day killed my SSD.
Should probably add that
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It's been over a year now. Hopefully we're getting closer to something that we'd all like to see.
A reminder: Upvote the original post in this thread to increase this issue's votes if you want to see it made a reality.
