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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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this is so ironic. few years ago I stopped using dropbox and switched to something else for two reasons: the desktop client was using a huge amount of memory and the lack of a .ignore file. Today i got an email from dropbox giving me a badge for writing in thi thread many years ago... "You've just captured the Spirit of the Dropbox Community! This badge is to show how much we here at Dropbox Appreciate all you do! Thank you". Even if they implement .ignore I would never go back to dropbox.
11 years and still no practical solution to ignore files and folders.
I would love to put my code projects into a dropbox sync area, and I don't mind creating an extra dropbox ignore file so that the auto-generated code and/or dependency package locations do not make noise in dropbox. (ie, regularly re-created or destroyed files can fill delete/recovery history with noise)
Would love to see a .dropboxignore to exclude files and folders by pattern. The current method of excluding one by one is tedious.
Happy 10-year anniversary Dropbox idea.
10 years without ANY progress on something that should be so easy to implement. Fortunately there are now other options, like syncthing and Koofr that support .gitignore style ignore folders.
I've written the article on the subject: Dropbox: How to Ignore Users for 10 Years (Dropbox doesn't allow to put a link in a comment so here it is: https://dev.to/melanchall/dropbox-how-to-ignore-users-for-10-years-hdn). There Dropbox will find (it it wants) all the required info about what we need and what pain we have.
It's just a nonsense to ignore us for such a long time.
LOL. @projectdeliverypartners And yet each time the responses are the same. Your solution may work for you, but this is not the solution the community wants.
projectdeliverypartners
"I'll say it one more time and then tap out..."Really? I doubt that more than I doubt Dropbox will address the feature request.
DelugeIA I've been actively monitoring every response in this thread for 10 years and have on multiple times raised alarms when they try closing this discussion to rile people up to make them reopen it. I cannot for the life of me understand how the most requested feature EVER, which isn't even that complex, has been unaddressed for 10 years.
