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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...
+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
Reflections on a simple usecase:
Three+ clients: A, B, C sharing same dropbox. Client C applies "ignore" to a specific subfolder "/cakalacky" to prevent his local changes from syncing. Other clients A & B continue to sync the subfolder "/cakalacky" normally.
This is how "ignore" should work, on a client by client basis.
However, when implemented as instructed in this Beta, updates/additions in the subfolder "/cackalacky" from Clients A or B, cause Client C to experince perpetual sync/download "processing/notification" for the ignored folder.Conclusion, "ignore" is not really the client solution we are looking for, rather, it seems to be an all-or-nothing solution requiring all clients to implement the same ignore command on the same folders as it stands as of 2/28/2020. In other words, there is no way to have some clients sharing a specific sub-folder while another client wishes to ignore the same.
