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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 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

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  • gibbsy's avatar
    gibbsy
    Helpful | Level 5
    7 years ago

    Please could you add 'Unsync folder' to the contextual menu when right clicking on a folder?

  • insetavijit's avatar
    insetavijit
    New member | Level 2
    7 years ago

    please please please

    make it for us . devlopers , coders 

    even windows is going on that direction ( wsl ) and much more .

    please , please , please 

  • gibbsy's avatar
    gibbsy
    Helpful | Level 5
    7 years ago

    For developers looking to exclude node_modules from db sync there is sort of a workaround.

     

    Create an empty node_modules folder in your local directory and then go into selective sync and unsync the empty directory from your computer. Dropbox will remove it from your machine but keep the empty directory in the cloud. Then when you run 'npm i' db will ignore the new node_modules folder and the 100s of 1000s of files within.

     

    A db_ignore config file would be much easier!

     

    But hope that helps anyway.

  • Siorra's avatar
    Siorra
    New member | Level 2
    7 years ago

    i'm programmer too, i'd like store my projects in dropbox, but it's very complex with node_modules, that contain hundreds of thousands files

  • Steve S.86's avatar
    Steve S.86
    Helpful | Level 6
    7 years ago
    +1 but it appears Dropbox could not care less, certainly not enough to make any comment in this thread. Why bother having a suggestions section?