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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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I moved to Seafile. I wrote a guide to set up it since it took me far too long to get everything configured
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@Colin M. - where do you move ?
Will be moving away from dropbox because of the lack of this feature. Totally unusable because of this.
Adding this feature would let me upgrade to the Pro tier, as I can put all of my development projects in here and share them between my desktop and laptop. At the moment I'm manually copying changes over from one to the other, as I wouldn't want to sync all of the temp files and JARs that get created during normal development.
+1. Please listen to your customers!
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Even though this is already available on Linux, Dropbox successfully ignoring the needs of the users on other platforms. I keep some visual studio projects and some tex documentation in dropbox folder and when you compile either of them, they create lots of intermediatery dfg vfiles
Many linux text editors, IDEs and many more programs create temporary and "junk" files that should not be synced. Regex excluding would be really appreciated.
