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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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This article is a little dated, but still probably quite accurate:
http://www.cloudwards.net/mega-vs-google-drive-vs-skydrive-vs-sugarsync/
It covers more services than just the names in the link by the way.
.dropboxignore copying .gitignore would be great. Then I could exclude all these weird indesign temp-files I don't need. And the same for whatever the next software making weird temp-files is.
@Fredy Great advice! I didn't realize mega had a client like that. With 50GB free I just found my new code backup service. Also, I think bitlocker does free private hosted repos.
I've been using MEGA for a while and so far so good. The sync client provides a feature to exclude files and folders by name. You just add node_modules to the list and the sync client will exclude all occurrences of this name in all your files.
To host private git repos for free I use GitLab.
I've given up on this happening. Two attempts to resolve perf issues with support resulted in the same eventual end - "you have too many files" and "you appear to have symlinks". Fixing this for devs is likely more risk (to general user base) than not fixing it for us...
I've moved all my dev projects out of dropbox but still use it for everything else. Github is fantastic for dev projects, although a little pricey. All is good :)
This feature will never gonna get implemented in dropbox... which is so sad. For dev's dropbox is totally useless. Any alternatives ?
It would be great if files you didn't want to sync could be specified in a .dropboxignore file, with something like a .gitignore syntax. Or, even better -- develop a standard (e.g. .nosync) that others companies and syncing services could implement as well.
Woo! We broke 200 upvotes! More than double the number of its nearest neighbour.
Boo! We still don't know what Dropbox are doing.
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Our Mac users are creating thousands of OSX files that start with "._." which are 4kb each. We would LOVE to exclude these from Dropbox!
