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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 and still no answer.
On Linux Dropbox has a client (`dropbox`) and a deamon (`dropboxd`).
The client has the `exclude` command, which you can use to exclude directories. E.g. to exclude node_modules from Dropbox you can enter `dropbox exclude add ./node_modules`
`dropbox help exclude` will print the help information:
dropbox exclude [list]
dropbox exclude add [DIRECTORY] [DIRECTORY] ...
dropbox exclude remove [DIRECTORY] [DIRECTORY] ...
"list" prints a list of directories currently excluded from syncing.
"add" adds one or more directories to the exclusion list, then resynchronizes Dropbox.
"remove" removes one or more directories from the exclusion list, then resynchronizes Dropbox.
With no arguments, executes "list".
Any specified path must be within Dropbox.+1!
.dropboxignore my node_modules :)
+1....
+1 !
Funny, I looked for this because of node_modules, too. Haha.
+1
Same situation, just bought Pro couple of days ago and didn't even have a thought that files patterns can be still unsupported here... Surprises me in a negative way.
Note also, that adding this feature will not only bring a lot of benefits to your customers, but will also reduce the load on your servers as well.
