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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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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!1
I canceled my 10-year-running DropBox subscription last year because of how this feature was never addressed.
GLHF 🙃
- Emmet
Community Manager
Status changed:Under ConsiderationtoIn Beta A dream come true, hopefully! 🤞🏼
Is this a dream?😃
vladgasanDropbox Product Manager
Hi everyone - exciting news! 🎉
We're launching a closed beta for Ignore Files feature, which lets you keep specific files or folders on your device without syncing them to dropbox.com. You can list exclusion rules in a special text file called rules.dropboxignore placed in your Dropbox root folder.
This has been one of the most requested ideas on the forum, and we’d love your help testing it out.
👉 Learn more and sign up here: [Ignore Files Beta Test Announcement]
How did you set up the triggers to run and alter DB behaviors?
Additionally. If you’re a programmer and running lots of git hub projects, there are better systems to be adopted than Dropbox? You don’t really want to use a live Dropbox for programming I would have thought
Good points here, although most are related to your particular environment but I do understand. I have a list of projects (call them folders) that are current, and have triggers (works on windows with powershall and Mac with .. Mac stuff) and they trigger whenever the program is open. I’m a civil engineer so in my case it’s 12d and AutoCAD. Anytime I open a 12d project inside folder x (one that’s on the list) do not sync happens straight away, and that project is then ‘checked out’ until I ve finished and it does the reverse once closed after 5 mins idle time. This works great for me, I rarely even think about it nowadays. I love the whole project gets taken off then put back on, a new complete revision gets made, the Dropbox automations can be used here too, really good. Every time I try one of the competitors out when I’ve got the Dropbox **bleep**s on, I very quickly return to my dear Dropbox with much love and enthusiasm, cause the others, are rubbish let’s face it. Unless you go down a resilio kind of thing but even then, there are lots of things I don’t like. Each to there own I suppose.
Well said. They will not allow a thumbs up so this is it. 👍
I just got a "message" saying I earned a star from DB because of a submission about this a few years ago (along with all the others).
I really should quit DB because of the stupidity of this issue, but it has been a useful tool for almost 15 years. It handles some things so well but this issue of being unable to control the updating of what are purely temporary files is ridiculous, and ignoring it for so long makes me wonder why I should bother. It may be time to move on.
