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Tom_M
12 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Status:
In Beta
Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync
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...
Christian K.24
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Hi,
I am using Dropbox 3.2.6 for Windows. Dropbox offers the possibility to exclude certain folders from synchronization. I suggest that there is added a functionality to exclude certain files from synchronization.
Dropbox excludes already certain system files such as desktop.ini. These are Windows system files... other software might add to the list of files that should not be synchronized. For instance, Thunderbird creates a file parent.lock in order to avoid that a second version of Thunderbird is started in parallel. This file is locked and may not be touched: it leads to a synchronization failure. It would be great if I could edit the list of files not to by synchronized and add files such as parent.lock
Best
Chris
Mike K.30
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Well, I appreciate the thanks, but the superuser who figured this out deserves the credit (I unfortunately wasn't able to thank HIM since the forum he posted on doesn't even allow comments or thanks until you've been a member for quite some time, and that ain't gonna happen for me). But I'm glad I could pass it on and let's hope that others will find the solution as well.
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