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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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Please!
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This feature should standard in Pro. Surely better for Dropbox themselves also, less constantly changing files to track?
How is this not yet a thing?
As a paying customer I concur and would like to see this feature added. Thank you.
Never listen to users...
Dropbox == Hopeless!!
You know what's quite ironic? Wherever this post is stored - it's quite obvious in Dropbox' ignore folder.
Personally I have given up on this and probably so should you.+1
guys you must implement a .dropboxignore file (with a context-menu button that add a line to the .dropboxignore file for non-dev users)
that would be the perfect solution to everything.
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