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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...
No, no they don't.
It is safe to say that the community is actively ignored. As a dev in a corporate enviroment, no amount of red tape can delay any development this long. The business clearly has no intrest in fixing this issue.
At this junction I will fix it for them, for free. But alas. No.
But they are working on the next hair brained tie-in to the echo-system to increase their value offering... instead of fixing the stuff we actually need done.
The stupid powershell command to exclude a folder barely works:
> Set-Content -Path 'your_local_path' -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1
It still goes into an absolute frenzy to index everything for some dark and dasterdly reason. Yet seems to hede the setting, and skip syncing.
Set-Content -Path 'C:\Users\...\Dropbox\...\node_modules' -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1
This really doesn't work for folders in PowerShell 7.1.4:Set-Content: Unable to clear content of 'C:\Users\...\Dropbox\...\node_modules' because it is a directory. Clear-Content is only supported on files.___
Update: It seems to be working in PowerShell 7.2.0-preview.9
- I came here hoping to see the .dropboxignore solution had been implemented but it seems Dropbox has placed a .ignore on the problem…
😞- Well at least it seems like the .ignore setting on the .ignore problem is working perfectly, now if they could only apply such skilled coding onto adding it into the software we'd be on track
And ditto on the adding stupid ideas, "ohh please add a super complex and useless office integration over basic functionality please!"
Btw I got tired of this and got Sync, they basically cloned dropbox as far as features, it's a lot cheaper and does support ignore.... The only reason we're still with dropbox is sync doesn't support 100mbps uploads yet but the second they do.....
We're currently using it on our less heavy users and tied it to our dropbox so anyone working on sync can see the files and viceversa and so far so good give it a shot
For small teams it's def a better solution
I'm sad to say this but im sorry dropbox, your /ignore of the problem has left us with no other choice
