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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...
I believe that the selective sync behaviour is determined by the local Dropbox setting somewhere. I used to have the old behaviour until I completely deleted and reinstalled Dropbox and redownloaded all my folders recently on my Mac. And selective sync never worked the same anymore. Maybe there is some setting or metadata somewhere we can set to choose this. My other Windows machine still has the old selective sync on the same folders, so it's not some global online setting.
As if all the issues web developers are facing with Dropbox is not enough, I don't think anyone has yet brought up the issue of temp files? For example, every time someone opens an Adobe InDesign file, an .IDLK file is created in the same directory (probably for file recovery), and this file is then deleted when the InDesign file is closed.
So these .IDLK files are constantly being indexed and synced with Dropbox for no reason.
So once again, we need a global ignore feature.
At the risk of piling on, I feel it's important to add another voice to the list:
If this isn't a .ignore style file-based solution or, at the very least, a UI-based list of file/folder patterns (like every other solution currently in existence) it will be essentially useless.
The same is true if the files are still being indexed and processed but not uploaded. I have multiple tools where there's no trick to get the folders out of the hierarchy and they change often, leading to 20% CPU use spikes while Dropbox goes to work. It also locks files which causes automated copies to fail which leads to rebuilds and more of my life wasted.
I'm pausing syncing at this point which means I'm losing out on meaningful use of one of the core features I need, file versioning. If something happens, I don't want to lose a full day of progress.
Thanks for finally getting around to this feature, but I'm in agreement with everyone here that the file-attribute version is a non-solution.
+1
Lack of such a feature is killing dropbox for me as a developer.
yep as others have said. an ignorefile based solution is needed, or atleast patterns.
Guys i have coded a workaround to fix this problem, linking it here so any changes are recorded in one central post.
[Registry File] Functionality: Add Ignore File/Folder to Right Click Context Menu (Windows) v1.1.0
XionicFire Thanks for the link, though it does still use the terrible folder attribute method they are currently testing, which doesn't work for deleted/remade files which are common for tons of things like Unity project folders, temp build folders for tons of workflows, removing and re-adding a node_modules folder and so on.
It certainly makes re-upping those things easier for not-often-deleted folders though.
