You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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jvasileff
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

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...
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Daphne's avatar
Daphne
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Thanks for all your feedback so far on this!

As this is in beta, I don't have any additional info to share on whether these functionalities (such as ignore by patterns etc) will be added.

We really appreciate the interest and feedback you've given on this, and letting us know how those additions would help with your workflow.

So keep it coming! I'll make sure to pass along your feedback to our dev team and keep you all up to date with any news here.

Hope you all have a wonderful day ahead! :grin:

Darda1ja's avatar
Darda1ja
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

I will weigh in on this: Please add a .gitignore (or .dropboxignore) file that will instruct dropbox to ignore files and folders similar to GIT

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