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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...
I have actually resorted to in one case name a file I don't want to be transferred to dropbox (unencrypted version of an encrypted password file) with a ~ prefix BUT totally a head scratcher that the product wouldn't have this inherent control.
Also while the above works for 1 file how about a checked out Subversion copy that has automatically has a .svn file in EACH subfolder with literally hundreds of folders in a file tree.
Sure I could remove all these files or rename them with a UNIX command but then the working copy won't be able to sync to Subversion anymore which kind of defeats the purpose.
So every time the code in one or dozens of files and one or dozens of these .svn folder/files gets updated. I literally have to turn off Dropbox as I've noticed an increase on upload and download bandwidth that is quite large and possibly excessive - need to test further.... Lack of an exclusion filter makes this even more painful...
Reducing bandwidth is a win-win for my system, Dropbox servers and everyone in between EXCEPT for ISPs unless you exceed quota and THEN the win-win is for the ISP only :-(
This is really weird, seeing how you already support the feature:
https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/files-not-syncing
You already have a list of files you won't sync. Why not add a few more matches from a file or registry?