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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...
Hi, would like to suggest a feture request.
I think that it wold be helpfull for developers, adding some sort of .dropignore or to make dropbox use .gitignore files.
I Have few repositorys in dropbox, that are using npm modules, and cache for a game projects.
I don't want to make dropbox take every file change in this folders, this would make more scence to have that per machine...
However i can't find way to build up that routine automaticaly... Maybe there is also a feture that already does that?
Daphne
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi there antokhio, thanks for posting here!
Would this feature do the trick for you? It's not exactly what you suggested, but it would give the same end result.
Let me know if this helps!
Daphne Why are you still recommending this when we keep telling you why it's useless? For how many YEARS are you going to totally ignore the CLEAR issues that we have REPEATEDLY listed it's problems? This is a SOLVED problem, JUST IMPLEMENT .dropboxignore. Not some hacky solution that takes a ton of work AND doesn't actually work how we need it to AND still eats our CPU indexing the files. Stop just stringing us along saying "your listening" every few months and not doing anything because you clearly aren't if you're still pitching this attribute solution.
Seconded. And I'm not trying to sound mean with the following paragraphs, but I want to state things plainly.
At this point I basically spend a day every month checking out Dropbox alternatives because the idea that the solution they've put out is a solution at all is a joke and there seems to be no movement on one of the single most requested features from professionals in a business oriented product.
This problem has been solved so many times by so many other services and pieces of software that it's insane that we're here asking for a real version instead of it just being done. I get that some developer though folder attributes (invisible to the user and impossible to verify and edit easily) were novel or elegant or something, but it straight doesn't work. That "feature" does not supply the required, requested functionality. It is non viable. It's awful UX, and on top of being cumbersome it doesn't persist.
Please just talk to the developers, tell them their solution does not please anyone and to just implement a proven solution with a track record that spans many years and multiple different products (including other cloud storage products like Backblaze, Mega, and plenty of others)
GoodSync seems to work perfectly with filters easy to set up to exclude certain folders. It is also reasonably priced. It can synchronize to the cloud, using Dropbox, Azure, Mega, Backblaze, Box, OneDrive, Amazon S3 and many more.
