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jvasileff
5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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...
borkdude
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
I've had a conversation with a Dropbox developer about them porting stuff to Rust. Between the lines he said that implementing ignoring files by setting the file attribute was the least amount of work of getting this implementing. This seemed to indicate that Dropbox still hasn't thought this through from the perspective of the user. I hope this will be revisited, because the current functionality is clumsy. If you delete a file from Dropbox, the attributes are gone. If a tool re-creates the file, you can start all over. We need an ignore file. Now.
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