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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 good explanation of why it's not there. A quick google search reveals loads of people also looking for the same feature. I really like the workflow I have with dropbox, but it's getting to the point where I might switch providers in order to allow better selective sync.
I've seen hackish solutions using selective sync, but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways:
- global pattern matching eg "node_modules"
- a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore
- a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder"
Other than that, keep up the good work. Cheers.
Tom
Idea Status Update
We're launching a closed beta for Ignore Files feature, and we’d love your help testing it out.
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Oh man i would love a .dropboxignore file
+1, such an obvious feature, dropbox has crashed on me so many time because of node_modules. Let me ignore them with a simple .dropboxignore file or something along those lines
+1 on .dropboxignore
+1
I almost thought it was already there... now it looks like a gaping hole in the sync capability.
I would love this! I really want to be able to ignore all the node_modules directories in all the node projects I sync with dropbox, sync's so many files that I really don't need.
Any update on this matter? Also, +1 :)
++1 c'mon Dropbox, it saves everyone's CPU cycles..
Dropbox plz
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