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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
11 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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miromannino
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

carlbrusse I always did as explained in the solution in that link you wrote and it seems there are no issues.

For example I have a project MyProject, where inside there are several folders and files. Among these there is the infamous node_modules folder.

I copy on my desktop the node_modules and I let Dropbox sync that the node_modules folder is gone.

I create a folder inside MyProject called node_modules and I let Dropbox to sync again.

Then I do selective sync removing node_modules from synced files

Now I copy back the node_modules in my desktop where it was before inside MyProject folder.

This process is very annoying but at least seems to work still. And I don't usually create new projects every other day so for me is still reasonable.

Can you confirm that works? Which OS?

PS. When I install packages (change the node_modules folder files) Dropbox still uses 100% CPU for a while though since is calculating differences. Dropbox, this should be optimised, it's very very annoying.