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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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It would be great! Currently I have a lot of ugly internal files on my recents list!
+1. damn node_modules
EDIT: Tried mega. does what we need, and I like some other features too.
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+1 this would be really helpfull for maya users as we can ignore 'incrementalSave' folder which can contain really huuuuge files :(
+100000 all my node_modules are syncing and my CPU goes 100% frequently.
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+1 - one of the few reasons why I don't use dropbox for more things is that something like .gitignore helps control the cruft that would float between my computers
