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Feedback on the new desktop app "ignore files" feature.
@Daphne that's great news! I look forward to trying it out.
But it would also be nice to have a configuration file, like ".dropboxignore", to list paths or patterns to exclude. The reason is that e...
Hi all, just gave the beta ignore feature a try. All it seems to do is put a little grey icon on my file.
If I create a file with the same name in the same folder on another machine, I get an '(Ignored Item Conflict)' on the first machine. I thought the whole point was that files set to ignore didn't sync...
We want gitignore-like solution, not a command that needs a specific path.
YES!!! PLEASE DO IT LIKE .gitignore does and STOP with the lousy hacks that don't work!
The inability to ignore files by pattern is making Dropbox absolutely unusable for me. I too have moved all my development trees off of Dropbox and I now sync my trees across multiple machines using gitlab, which works great, but is another manual step that I shouldn't have to do, and is the reason why I use Dropbox in the first place...
Between the lack of a proper ignore feature, the Case Conflicts (stupid case insensitivity, please come into the 21st century!) and Selective Sync Conflicts, using Dropbox for Linux/Unix/Mac development is just outright PAINFUL and worse than useless.
