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Feedback on the new desktop app "ignore files" feature.
@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 e...
This feature is long overdue. It's not just a simple matter to "just put folders you want to ignore outside of dropbox".
It's very common when working in some types of projects (especially involving code) to want to avoid crufty temp files or machine generated files saving to the cloud, and at the same time, for the human created files to upload normally.
This is why .gitignore is a thing.
Of course I use version control, and can do this outside of Dropbox, but I've found it's quite annoying when collaborating, and I have a perfect project folder to work out of, which has art assets and such under Dropbox, to then need to completely set up a separate duplicate project outside of the folder structure just to get Dropbox to ignore some folders.
