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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 agree that this feature is highly desired.
@Jordan T.
https://gist.github.com/idleberg/6c8a563e248103baaa20 (for linux)
http://konolige.com/dbignore/ (for Mac, but doesn't work with the latest version of Dropbox)If .dbignore worked, it has to be a relatively easy way for the dropbox team to solve this.
I as many others here consulting of change syncservice to some other that provides ignore-feature.
@Slebbo, what hacks are you referring to?
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since people already developed hacks that does this, why can't you do it?
