Your workflow is unique 👨💻 - tell us how you use Dropbox here.
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.
1,036 Comments
Following.
- Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for getting back to us here sagarisms!
This is a feature available with our paid subscriptions, and has been for quite a while now. :grin:
I appreciate your feedback though and I've made a note of this.
If you have any other questions or need assistance with anything else, I'd suggest starting a new discussion here.
Have a great day - cheers!
Hi @Daphne, thank you. I will check it out.
Having said that, it's odd that I don't know about this feature even though I am a Dropbox loyalist.
It might help if new features/changes/updates are socialised through optional/consensual on-boarding.
🙏🏽
- Daphne
Hey sagarisms, thanks for sharing your thoughts here!
I just wanted to jump in and mention that perhaps Smart Sync would be the feature you're looking for.
It allows you to see your full file structure in your local Dropbox folder, without taking space on your hard drive.
I hope this helps!
In addition to all the valuable comments above, I simply do not undersrtand why Dropbox cannot retain entire folder structures & filenames locally while not actually hosting the file on the local computer?
It is just bad UX.
A lot of individuals are refraining from using the internet to focus on getting work done even though they might be technically connected in the background. From an experience perspective it is rather cumbersome to go to the browser each time one even needs to look up a file.
Allowing to access one's entire folder & file view locally, as part of OS finder/filemanager view is extremely helpful, even if they are not hosted locally.
:heart:
- Daphne
Hi there everyone, just wanted to update you with some good news!
We're currently working on a feature to allow you to ignore local folders from syncing with your Dropbox account.
At the moment, this is currently in beta so isn't available to all users, but we're working hard to roll this out to more users in the future.
You can find the steps along with some additional info on this from here.
Thank you all for showing your interest in this!
