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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
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+1 for myself and the 130+ startup I work for. Looking into BitTorrent Sync
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I reiterate the screaming in the same direction. Please Dropbox add a feature (.dropboxignore or any other technical solution!) to exclude single files or whole file types from syncing. This would bring you at pair of some of your competitors, such as Carbonite, which allow syncing "preferences" at the single file level.
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Yeah, this is something that we need quickly, I'm currently searching for other solution as this is not worth paying yearly :/
Dropbox, please do something about this.
You're right Chris. And if you don't catch it right away Dropbox will hang for hours and not sync your other files. Tracking it down can be a pain too to find the offending file.
So if you're working on local versions of websites that uses some CMSs that create cache files, these often don't have the right permissions to be uploaded or indexed by dropbox and it causes it to be mega slow.
The best way to stop this is to have a .ignore file like git, also if you have local git repositories, you don't need to index the .git files in dropbox.
So need this. now. please.
