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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...
After recommendations from other people in this thread, I've finally decided to try pCloud.
It's an amazing service. It's all I wanted in a virtual drive service, without any of the garbage.
It automatically creates a virtual drive that contains files and folders (without taking local space). Uploads and downloads are super fast, without any of the extremely slow starting/sync times DropBox has given me (even though I have 600mb there, more than DropBox). This has all worked much better than DropBox's Smart Sync.
The kicker is: it comes with global file ignoring by pattern by default. Something that DropBox can't find the time or the will to implement, even after years of requests, is a default feature...
And if anything, the lack of certain features like document-ending (i.e. DropBox Paper) mean to me that pCloud is focused in providing the best virtual file experience for users than actually need it, rather than trying to expand the business horizontally and letting the virtual file service features mummify over time.
I've started migrating all my stuff to pCloud. So far I don't see any downside, and I'm happy to support a small company trying to do one thing right. It'll take a few months for me to do the transition (and I still have some time left on my DropBox paid tier anyway) but I'm very happy so far.
So, you know, just ignore this thread's requests as you have, DropBox. On a long enough timeline, it won't matter.