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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 request here and I think a response of "We are adding it to our dev list" or "we won't be doing this" would be appropriate. I won't ask for a schedule, but I'd appreciate an update to the consideration of the request so some of us can make a decision.
Just for the fun of it, here's the threads I'm aware of that all basically are asking for the same thing. They have all gotten the same "this has been passed on to our dev team" response or equivalent.
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Exactly @Adam P.
Selective sync does not solve the problem.
Yet Dropbox and their ignorance seem to think it does.
I twitted a link of this post to Drew Houston directly. I wrote 'this 2 years old post is an example of why you are losing a lot of zero hour customers like me' then linked here. Feel free to do the same. Hope it can 'trigger a reaction' that is not coming from here.
Well this latest blog post put the nail in Dropbox's coffin for me.
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/going-deeper-with-project-infinite/
Read the comments at the bottom to see why this is such a bad idea.
Then read how to Drop Dropbox.
How is this not yet a thing?
Please!
This would be great. Others have said it better than I can. +1
+1
Node modules syncing drives me mad.
