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Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a g...
Why won't Dropbox add a feature where you could automatically ignore files by name? I realize that this is a little bit of a niche feature, probably only needed by power users, but it would clearly be trivial to implement, and I've seen many users asking for this feature.
https://twitter.com/stormchild/status/453914697536794624
https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore
http://superuser.com/questions/731583/can-i-specify-certain-files-for-dropbox-to-ignore
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/35474/does-dropbox-or-any-other-similar-solution-ignore-files-based-on-regexp
http://www.quora.com/Why-wont-Dropbox-add-option-to-exclude-files-by-filetype-extension
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201289669-Ignore-folder-without-selective-sync-
You get the idea, several pages of Google results with people asking for a feature that would take probably less than a week for an engineer to implement.
As others have said there is already a request for this: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-without-selective-sync/idi-p/5926
That thread has more votes so I suggest upvoting it so the votes aren't split!
It looks like currently this feature is the top-voted Dropbox feature request and, thanks to this thread, ALSO the fourth most popular, so it's clearly needed.
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This is a very important function. I can't use Dropbox for my projects because I can't tell DropBox to ignore my IDEs temp and backup files. As soon as I start it, DropBox goes crazy and messes my file history with continues uploads. Please add a function to simply ignore files/folder by name, like .git, *.tmp and so on.
I .dropboxignore file would be great. I love using dropbox to back up my coding projects, but I want to ignore certain directories/files that match a specific pattern like for example the 'node_modules' directory or anything ending bin a '/bin' directory, this currently isn't possible as you have to specifically select each and every folder you want to ignore and there is no option for pattern matching.
I know there's devs over at dropbox, pass this message forward :) thanks people!
Everyone, look no further... just use this:
I was just about to suggest the same...
PLEASE!
+1 - need this feature!
+1, such an obvious feature, dropbox has crashed on me so many time because of node_modules. Let me ignore them with a simple .dropboxignore file or something along those lines
Dropbox plz
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This feature should standard in Pro. Surely better for Dropbox themselves also, less constantly changing files to track?
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