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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
12 years ago
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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...
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Gato-Gato
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Not sure if suggested before but I resolved the issue on Mac with manual symlinks.

  1. Create a folder named "Symlinked" in ~/Library/Caches
  2. Recreate empty ignored folders in a separate directory for each project (like "proj_A/packages", "proj_B/node_modules")
  3. Remove ignored folders from Dropbox if they were created previously
  4. Create symlinks for each ignored folder:
ln -s  /Users/MyUser/Library/Caches/Symlinked/ProjectA/packages /Users/MyUser/Dropbox/ProjectA/packages

Probably it could be automated but I don't have much stuff, so I just copy-pasted it a couple of dozens of times into the Terminal, changing names of the directories.