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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...
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.
All I want to ask is, did you guys all make the new "ignore " trick work? Why can't I make it work? I'm on Dropbox v91.4.548 on Win10, and I did "Set-Content -Path C:\path\to\my\folder -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1" on powershell, and nothing happens.
Update: restart dropbox fixed it, now it's working
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.
- Hmm you are correct but depending on your specific problem that issue can be addressed by the clever use of .ps1 powershell script files and windows scheduler
Thank you so much XionicFire... saves me the hassle of migrating to a new service, for the time being... unbelievable that dropbox is so useless on this issue that we have to resort to user posted .reg changes.
ccd1 , another user suggested a good change, ive updated the REG code to include it, it adds support for directories or files containing [ or ] characters, in case you want to update it to the new version, installing the update should be as simple as copying the new code and running the reg again.
Im glad its useful to people, I know id be going mad and killing someone if I didnt have this and I had to manually type every file/folder I need to ignore with random generated names all over the drive on 172 machines.
