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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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+1 seems like a no brainerI really need this feature!
+1
It is actually hard to believe that this option is not part of the package+1
Also planning to leave dropbox over this.
Dropbox client is constantly indexing and syncing all these totally ignorable files.- Mark
Super User II
If it isnt 'a not so big deal' to implement why not do it yourself via the API?
I know many user suggested this idea before, but clearly they haven't got real answers, so I reissue this:
Why won't Dropbox implements the .dropboxignore/.dbignore feature?
It would be really convenient to have some sort of ".gitigrore"-like feature. This is really not so big deal to implement (just some regex tricks), and so many users have been asking for this.
No, we (the group of users asking for this feature) don't want to get the "Use the selective sync feature", because it works only on folders, and when a new one created it needs to be checked from the menu manually, It's just a pain in the ***. We want a real .dropboxignore feature, not a workaround!
I am a paying customer, but will stop being one soon.
The node_modules and other developer stuff directories makes the backup way too big.
THe problem is that it consumes your resources and when you need to import it to another machine, it gets way too slow because of the amount of files.
Time to unsubscribe from this thread, clearly dropbox have no intention on adding this feature, so I have no intention on upgrading to a paid plan, moving on =>
+1
Would really like this feature, kinda sad seeing a company like Dropbox not keeping up with these community requests.
dropbox .ignore file:
/clients
clients
*.clients
Stop using dropbox today.
Yes, please make this possible! A per-client setting to choose whether the Selective Sync is opt-in (new folders synced by default) or opt-out (new folders not synced by default).
