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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...
sebastian_ wrote:
Will this work when set on a root directory so that ALL `node_modules` sub-directories ever created now, or in the future, deleted, and re-created over time will be ignored and not synced without further user action? Each of these `node_module` cache folders contain hundreds of thousands of files each and undergo regular refreshes. It's absolutely critical that Dropbox NOT process/traverse these sub-directories whatsoever.
If `com.dropbox.ignore` can be set at the Dropbox/ root, will you explain the exact steps for macOS? It will be such a life saver
Unfortunately, setting 'com.dropbox.ignore' at the Dropbox/root would not achieve the desired effect, because that would mean asking Dropbox to ignore the entire contents of the Dropbox folder. That is due to the way the 'com.dropbox.ignore' feature is currently implemented in the Dropbox desktop client. For now it is only possible to ignore existing folders by marking them individually with 'com.dropbox.ignore'.
What you described makes perfect sense and I am thinking of another way to achieve that. I will write back here if I find something worth mentioning.