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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 g...
Why won't Dropbox add a feature where you could automatically ignore files by name? I realize that this is a little bit of a niche feature, probably only needed by power users, but it would clearly be trivial to implement, and I've seen many users asking for this feature.
https://twitter.com/stormchild/status/453914697536794624
https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore
http://superuser.com/questions/731583/can-i-specify-certain-files-for-dropbox-to-ignore
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/35474/does-dropbox-or-any-other-similar-solution-ignore-files-based-on-regexp
http://www.quora.com/Why-wont-Dropbox-add-option-to-exclude-files-by-filetype-extension
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201289669-Ignore-folder-without-selective-sync-
You get the idea, several pages of Google results with people asking for a feature that would take probably less than a week for an engineer to implement.
Dave, I would gladly pay $20 for a simple, reliable and well-maintained third party tool to achieve this. Though an open-source solution would be appreciated to be able to audit the code.
I am a bit worried with more complex ad hoc implementations like Boxifier which are fantastic in theory, but that constantly have to catch up with the non documented behavior of the official client (and make you run the risk of losing files every now and then!). It is a shame the Windows official client is not open-source nor has a suitable API nor has a CLI as in Linux.
For now I am trying to make use of the excellent (and free) ODrive, which is basically an alternate Dropbox client. It allows a much better selective sync process (that DOES NOT HANG for hours contrarily to the official Dropbox client), but no gitignore-like functionality (for now).
I understand you are able to make Dropbox ignore existing files on the disk by not being aware of them, however are you 100% sure the client would not be able to circumvent that through the use of other Win32 APIs? How do you prevent Dropbox from syncing an existing remote tmp file onto the local computer, when it is marked as to be ignored?