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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 from Brazil!
+1000
extremely useful for web devs who use a gulp watch to bundle js/parse less, etc.
and to ignore node_modules....the dream+1
This is an essential feature!+1 !
Not to derail this thread, but what did you guys switch to?
+10000
Huge +
Plz, Dropbox, plz...
This is getting really annoying...
As a webdeveloper I really need a .dropboxignore file next to my .gitignore & .jshintignore to exclude folders with thousands of files such as node_modules & bower_components to sync.
The Selective sync tree is so slow in browsing through folders and as soon as you forget to setup the exact same selective sync on one of your devices, you can start over again.
I'm not a Dropbox expert but it seems it can't be THAT difficult to implement this?
+1000000000
+1
