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vladgasan
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7 months ago

Cut the Clutter: Ignore Files Feature is now live

Update: This feature is now live and available to all individual plan customers! Thank you to all our testers, and share your feedback with the team, we're still eager to hear from you!    For ye...
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huhlig's avatar
huhlig
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3 months ago

Dell_Dropbox​ Any idea when this will be available to a broader audience? I'm hesitant to write a watchdog utility to automatically ignore everything in my .gitignore files if this is slated for short release but this has been a frustrating limitation of dropbox for the better part of a decade.

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    Dell_Dropbox
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    2 months ago

    huhlig​ This feature should now be available to all users who have the beta version of Dropbox installed. Also, please ensure you also have Early Access enabled, this is required to access the Ignore FIles feature. 

    1. Go to your Dropbox account settings.
    2. Scroll to the Preferences section.
    3. Toggle Early Access to On 
    • huhlig's avatar
      huhlig
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      2 months ago

      Dell_Dropbox​ So I enabled the early access feature, went to sync options, and clicked Modify the rules, which created the rules.dropboxignore file. I did this on both machines and added two rules as a test: one for a file and one for a folder. Both are regularly deleted and recreated whenever the IDE performs a complete build.

      /Projects/**/Cargo.lock
      /Projects/**/target/

      I have a directory structure that looks something like this:

      /<folders>/<files>
      /Projects/<projectname>/src/*
      /Projects/<projectname>/target/*
      /Projects/<projectname>/Cargo.lock
      /Projects/<projectname>/Cargo.toml
      /Projects/<projectname>/<other files>
      /Projects/<groupname>/<projectname>/src/*
      /Projects/<groupname>/<projectname>/target/*
      /Projects/<groupname>/<projectname>/Cargo.lock
      /Projects/<groupname>/<projectname>/Cargo.toml
      /Projects/<groupname>/<projectname>/<other files>

      Based on the rules above, I would assume the following would be ignored; however, they appear to be still synced every time I build, which creates 10s of thousands of files.

      /Projects/<projectname>/target/*
      /Projects/<projectname>/Cargo.lock
      /Projects/<groupname>/<projectname>/target/*
      /Projects/<groupname>/<projectname>/Cargo.lock

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        Dell_Dropbox
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        2 months ago

        Pinging vladgasan​ for this one, maybe we can get a little help

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