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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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I have this problem as well, It's an easy fix as far as I can see to get it to ignore the files, the file type isn't used by any other app/program.
Plus a billion. I have been using Dropbox since its very start. My two Dropbox Pro subscriptions are about to expire and, for the first time, I am considering not renewing them.
This would be fantastic!!! +1
I have my projects folder backing up to dropbox, which contains vagrant VMs that I don't particulary want backed up specifically the .vagrant/ folder. In fact Dropbox will spike to 100%+ CPU when it even attempts to sync that. I actually have to turn off Dropbox while I work on a project that requires vagrant and then remember to turn it back on again.
I would absolutely LOVE a .dropboxignore
And many people come here who doesn't even post, but this is necessary since dropbox speed up the CPU when you do, composer install or npm install or bower install... there are so many garbage and projects...
This is the reason I'm slowly moving to other Cloud Provider:
A nasty trick that helps is to create a directory with the filename of the file you wish to ignore, then use selective sync to remove it and then any normal file with that same name is ignored. Unfortunately, you need to do this with a lot of mouse clicks, "dropox exclude" does not seem to work. It's really sad I need to do this shit on something that should be technically easy to implement, even if just for linux users...
My research includes sometimes generating files that are large and I don't need to sync (12GB+). More often than not, I just need them for a little while and then a new similar file is generated. This keeps my DB in a constant not syncing state but I do need to keep my code synced. Because the code is being used in different computers and settings with different privileges, generated file must be within the code's parent folder.
I can live with the unnecessary syncing of all the compilation generated files that my IDE creates, but a .dropboxignore file (or any other means to exclude particular files and file patterns) would definitely be so useful.An exclude option comes with the CLI for Linux, why isn't there a similar thing for Windows?
Anyone know if this has been looked into as a feature or future idea or is it dead. I recently have ran into my keepass lock file being sync'd and screwing up my keepass because the lock file isn't erased so keepass thinks the password file is still there.
It's be great to setup a black list or ignore list for dropbox to look at when syncing.
thanks
Jeff
This feature is a must. Keep it simple. I don't want to have to switch to "Selective Sync". It's a waste of my time.
TLDR: +1
