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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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Stefano Valicch1
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Thank you for the update, Ed, but, as "cool" can be Infinite, it's not going to change our workflow.

This little hack, on the other hand, could simplify our life greatly and would:

  • Avoid unnecessary syncs (saving cpu and bandwidth for us and Dropbox as well)
  • Save us from "wrong sync" related issues like 64 bit libraries that "pops up" on a 32 bit computer on the other side of the world screwing our projects. I call them "doomsday syncs", BTW.
  • Going through selective sync interface (that is, at least, sluggish and unreliable)

 

It would be a typical win/win situation if you guys implement it (your bandwidth would be saved too from unnecessary and dangerous syncs of millions of nested folders and files, that is very slow and cpu intensive)

Please "precedence" it, IMO at least.