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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
12 years ago
Status:
In Beta

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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stirredo
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

I have now moved on to tresoreit.com which has this featured built-in. It's almost the same price as dropbox and the desktop client doesn't seem to hog any CPU or RAM on my computer.

 

I followed the guide on this page:

https://support.tresorit.com/hc/en-us/articles/217103697-Exclude-specific-file-types-from-sync-advanced-

 

and I was able to ignore folders like node_modules and vendor (PHP packages folder).

 

It's a shame dropbox has decided to pivot from a cloud-based backup tool to what seems like a path to being an email client with google docs built-in.

 

It's been 6 years since this feature request was created and it clearly tells us where their priorities lie now, which was from being a file backup tool to now being google docs with half-baked file-backup utility built-in.

 

So long, Dropbox