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Add .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 We're launching a closed beta for Ignore Files feature, and we’d love your help testing it out. 👉 Learn more and sign up here
Manual-sync mode for selected folders
Many users that have large quantity of files in Dropbox complains about the indexing time as Dropbox implements a two-way synchronization that always monitor the selected folders to sync. This issue is currently affecting me as I have 4TB files on my Dropbox and whenever I start the Dropbox app it hangs the explorer on Windows making it unusable until the indexing process is completed. This idea is to introduce a Manual-Sync mode for folders that the user can mark as manual-sync and decide when to download or upload the data from that folder from/to Dropbox so it avoids the constant indexing for folders with huge amount of files. For Example: A music library of 2TB of small files (20-50MB size) can be marked as Manual-Sync with this: - Dropbox client will still show the contents as Online-Only for a folder that exists on the Dropbox server. - The user can decide which folders to upload or download. The option to Upload/Download a manual-synced folder should display in the right-click context menu. - When uploading/downloading a specific folder, the indexing will happen in the scope of that folder reducing the indexing time and the indexing will happen whenever the user wants to sync the folder to upload or download data. - The data in folders set as Manual-Sync is only local and can be deleted without affecting the Dropbox server files. - Folder marked as Manual-Sync will be ignored from the Dropbox regular indexed process as it should only index the folders that are defined by the user to auto-sync (In the same way it works now) This will help to improve the Dropbox client performance and will give more control to the users regarding the folders they want to auto sync as users will be able to just download a large folder to have a local copy without the worries of indexing time and continue using Dropbox for other folders without being taxed by indexing times of folders that are marked as Manual-Sync.Imperative: Camera Uploads Update
Hello. Can you please make it so that people are able to change the name of the "Camera Uploads" without it cancelling the automatic uploads after doing so and also make it so that people can simultaneously upload files from multiple albums in their device into separate folders on Dropbox? This will make it far easier everyone to organize everything, especially when sharing the folder(s) with others. Point 1: As of right now, if someone were to change the name of the "Camera Uploads" folder to something else, let's say to "Andrew's Content," the automatic uploads will completely cancel future automatic uploads into that folder and create a whole entire new folder, again named "Camera Uploads," resulting in 2 separate folders which is inefficient, can lead users to become very confused, and what can be seen as an error in the algorithm from my point of view. Point 2: If a business has multiple people sharing their "Camera Uploads" folder to them, that business has no way to distinguish between which "Camera Uploads" folder belongs to whom, nor is the business able to change the name of the folder for themselves on their end. This is a major problem. Point 3: When people want to set up automatic uploads from multiple albums in their phone named, let's call them 'Content 1,' Content 2,' and 'Content 3,' and have them saved in either the same and/or separate folders in Dropbox, they can't because it is not even a feature. Can you please look into this and make these, what I think would be very beneficial quality of life, updates? Thank you so much for your time and consideration! Thank you, AndrewGive us a clear editable list of the files that are being uploaded/downloaded on the desktop app.
Currently we can use MacOS finder to request files to be downloaded (right click > make available offline), we can see the progress of individual files (download / upload) in the finder, and the upload in the dropbox app. The download progress is shown only when a file is added to macOS for the first time. (But they are actually not being downloaded when they are stet to online only) We are at the complete mercy of macOS and dropbox regarding download order / priority. We can stop the sync, and I think thats it. It would be very helpful to be able to order / prioritise specific files or folders. When you see something like this: It's very overwhelming especially if you need a file right now... I often end up logging into dropbox web and downloading the file I need into my download folder. I would suggest adding download and upload buttons (where the Your Activity button is), and have a file/folder download / upload list, that the user could then reorder. Your activity shows upload progress and you can use sync next, thats great but when you use dropbox professionally it's not enough. It's also very rarely accurate. The files downloading or uploading get shown while they sync but then disappear.
