Feedback on the new desktop app "ignore files" feature.

[jvasileff]

@Daphne that's great news! I look forward to trying it out.

But it would also be nice to have a configuration file, like ".dropboxignore", to list paths or patterns to exclude. The reason is that extended attributes are tied to the actual file or folder, and will be gone if the file or folder is deleted and recreated.

The common use case for this is a software build folder that gets deleted and recreated on clean builds. Under xattr system, the "new" build folder would sync to Dropbox even if the "old" build folder had the necessary com.dropbox.ignored xattr.

[turshija]

Bumping this, still very much needed feature for web developers who use Dropbox to store web projects.

xattr hack works by blacklisting node_modules, but whenever a folder is deleted you need to do it again, if you forget about it a lot of files gets uploaded so it takes a lot of time to remove, create a new folder again, xattr it and then npm install

The problem is much bigger especially on monorepo projects which can have multiple nested node_modules.