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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 agree with Sam B..
Ed, can you please give us more information about the status of this instead of referencing a 2 months old comment which doesn't tell us anything really?#1 request here and I think a response of "We are adding it to our dev list" or "we won't be doing this" would be appropriate. I won't ask for a schedule, but I'd appreciate an update to the consideration of the request so some of us can make a decision.
From what I've read on the thread: no, they have not acknowledged the request. Maybe on a separate source, but I do not know about it.
Has Dropbox even acknowledged this request? They should minimally say they will or won't work on it. This is the number 1 requested item on their list.
+1
.dropboxignore would solve so many problems
+1
Also switching due to this issue
