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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...
It will be so useful if I could exclude certain files from syncing based on a file mask. Examples:
.tmp
*.xml~
mailbox.psd
aa.t??
"Really not so hard" yes it is. "Use dropbox AND git/bitbucket" what a headache.
The whole point of dropbox is that it constantly syncs. SVN/git/hg et cetera all have to manually commit and sync. They are version control systems. If thats what people wanted thats what they'd use. The whole point of drop box is that it is not like that.
The whole point of dropbox over them is that on dropbox YOU DONT HAVE TO commit, it automatically syncs every change to the cloud instantly. YOU DONT HAVE TO log into the remote box and manually pull the latest changes, the drop box client automatically downloads them.
You have a dropbox with .html / .php / .js / .css files in it, you change them locally, you go to your web browser, you wait 1 or 2 seconds, you refresh the page, and your live website on the VPS / dedicated server is now showing the recent changes, because of drop box! How easy is that? How neat, great & convenient is that? Git / SVN / etc suck. You forget to commit and then go home and want to work on it some more and say "OH NO! I Forgot to commit! my latest changes are stuck on my laptop at work! p.o.s!" with dropbox it would have synced as soon as you hit save.
Advice of "dont use dropbox for that use git instead" is crap because if they are using dropbox in the first place its because only dropbox / syncthing / btsync et cetera will do, git / svn etc are not good enough!
So basically for languages that generate objects like c/c++/c# (.obj / .exe) and java (.class) you should look at cmake.
Your dropbox has:
DropBox/MyProject/Main.cc
DropBox/MyProject/ImageLoader.cc
DropBox/MyProject/logo.jpg
DropBox/MyProject/CMakeLists.txt
and then you run cmake gui
And you make it use the glob method to grab all files that exist.
And then you click choose source and browse to DropBox/MyProject
Then you click choose build dir and browse to c:\temp\asdasdasd
Then you hit configure, generate, open, and visual studio will open up a new project in c:\temp\asdasdasd where all object files and .exe will go but the source files are opened from DropBox\MyProject\ so changes are synced.
When you want to add a new source to the project, you go to DropBox\MyProject, right click, create new text file, name it, rename the extension to .cc / .h and then go to cmake and hit configure,generate, and then go to visual studio and click reload on the prompt. It will now have the new file in the project, and all your tabs and open files are still there and you can now rebuild.
And that way .pdb .obj .exe et cetera never end up in dropbox sync folder.