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vladgasan
Dropbox Product Manager
Dropbox Product ManagerCut 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!
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vladgasanDropbox Product Manager
Dropbox Product ManagerHi traf,
Thanks for flagging this. Quick check first: was the node_modules folder already present before you added it to your .dropboxignore file?
Ignore rules only apply to new files and folders created after the rule is added. If node_modules already existed, Dropbox will continue syncing it even after the rule is in place.
To fix this, please follow these steps:
- Remove the node_modules rule from your .dropboxignore file and save it.
- Delete the local node_modules folder.
- Add the node_modules rule back to .dropboxignore and save the file again.
After that, Dropbox should stop syncing node_modules going forward.
Let me know if this solved the issue.
-Vlad
thanks vladgasan, that clears things up
side question, any way to hide the rules.dropboxignore file in main dropbox folder? I can do it using chflags hidden but just wanna be sure that won't screw up any functionality
