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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??
I would also like this feature. I use SVN for most of my projects; however, for some smaller projects that I want backed up and/or synchronised between computers but don't need extensive versioning for, I use Dropbox.
I haven't found this to be much of an issue for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Xcode projects as although they have files that don't need to be synced, they're usually quite small (although they can cause a large number of events to be logged, making it harder to find things in Events). However, Visual C++ projects can often have hundreds of megabytes of files that don’t need to be synced.
I've also had similar issues due to other applications storing temporary or other regenerable files in the same directory as files they open which are in my Dropbox. Some programs may provide an option to store these files elsewhere but not all of them.
It would also be nice if this applied to all computers (and users in the case of a shared folder) rather than having to do it for each computer like Selective Sync.
Dave C. posted a workaround for excluding a single file using Selective Sync conflicts:
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/202362759-Is-it-possible-to-exclude-a-file-or-file-type-with-selective-sync-or-is-it-only-possible-to-exclude-folders-?locale=en-us
Yours sincerely,
Lucas Cardellini