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14 TopicsAdd .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync
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 Ignore Files is available to all individual plan customers Learn more 👉 Cut the Clutter: Ignore Files Feature is now live | The Dropbox Community634KViews1422likes1036CommentsSynchronize network folders over NAS
A lot of people own a personal NAS. A lot of people use Dropbox. So... A lot of people use Boxifier too. It would be great if Dropbox will integrate Boxifier features natively. That could even be a payable feature with a little add-on to "lower" plans and directly included in "upper" plans. No more pain about brokening of Boxifier when upgrading Dropbox91Views5likes2CommentsStop Downloading Before Out Of Disk
Today, Dropbox does not gracefully handle running out of disk. It keeps going until it gets an error from the operating system that there's not enough space left at which point it's not even able to show you how much space it's using because there's not enough disk space for that to function. Ideally Dropbox would leave at least a couple GB so the system can keep functioning until the user has time to do something about it. Also, don't keep retrying - one notification after another about not being able to download is useless until a significant amount of space has been freed up one way or another. Making it easy to open a window with space usage and encouraging the user to keep more files cloud only would be much more user friendly.83Views3likes2CommentsProgress bar or estimated time left on sync
Its a feature thats been removed, re-added, and removed again. No real explanation given to users. And given that you need to wait until a file has finished uploading in order to generate a valid link with 'copy dropbox link', we need to know when its going to finish uploading.23Views1like0Comments