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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've also cancelled my business account because of this.
Don't forget to upvote the original post.
M.S. - we cancelled our business account because of this. Dropbox doesn't work for developers unless you want to waste a lot of time manually setting up selective syncs across 100's of projects and 1000's of folders.
+1 !
Good points guys, this thread has been discussed in another thread in more detail here:
I'm not sure why this is marked as "Answered", when it clearly isn't.
+1
This is an essential feature!+1000
extremely useful for web devs who use a gulp watch to bundle js/parse less, etc.
and to ignore node_modules....the dream+1
Please do this Dropbox.+1 from Brazil!
The most-upvoted community thread has become a list of alternative services to Dropbox because the dev team does not care. I'm sure they see it and think "200 idiots can't find the Selective Sync feature, how sad"
Your Selective Sync folder checkbox tree is not as convenient or flexible as having an ignore file.
Hereis some pseudo code for the feature:
for( filename in files )
if( ignoreFileGlobPattern.matches( filename )
// do not sync the file!
else
// sync the file!// wow! that was tough! Time for a vacation!
I won't consider upgrading, and will actively deter anyone from using Dropbox unless this is added.
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