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Tom_M's avatar
Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
10 years ago
Status:
Investigating

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

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  • Johnny W.2's avatar
    Johnny W.2
    Helpful | Level 7
    9 years ago

    Hi Vasiliy, glad you made it over. Just so you know, writing +1 is not the same as voting. You actually need to click UPVOTE on the message at the top of this page.

  • Johnny W.2's avatar
    Johnny W.2
    Helpful | Level 7
    9 years ago

    Woo! We broke 200 upvotes! More than double the number of its nearest neighbour.

    Boo! We still don't know what Dropbox are doing.

  • Janne N.'s avatar
    Janne N.
    New member | Level 1
    9 years ago

    This feature will never gonna get implemented in dropbox... which is so sad. For dev's dropbox is totally useless. Any alternatives  ?

  • Dave H.48's avatar
    Dave H.48
    New member | Level 1
    9 years ago

    I've given up on this happening. Two attempts to resolve perf issues with support resulted in the same eventual end - "you have too many files" and "you appear to have symlinks". Fixing this for devs is likely more risk (to general user base) than not fixing it for us...

    I've moved all my dev projects out of dropbox but still use it for everything else. Github is fantastic for dev projects, although a little pricey. All is good :)

  • Erin D.2's avatar
    Erin D.2
    New member | Level 1
    9 years ago

    @Fredy Great advice! I didn't realize mega had a client like that. With 50GB free I just found my new code backup service. Also, I think bitlocker does free private hosted repos.