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Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync
Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a g...
It will be so useful if I could exclude certain files from syncing based on a file mask. Examples:
.tmp
*.xml~
mailbox.psd
aa.t??
Yes, this would be a step closer to making Dropbox a genuine version control alternative.
Not synching certain filetypes isnt the same - omission of feature X doesnt mean feature Y included.
I'm no expert, but this feature is included in either the frontend, or as a loose text file in the same folder which just list the file types to ignore.
Does this feature exist already in the business version?
I work in games, and engines produce a lot of guff which is either useless or harmful to other users of the same folder. 'Fix the engine' is one option, but needless traffic produced by, for example the OS (for example, .tmp files as mentioned in the header) is prohibitive to users on limited bandwidth as well.
I like Dropbox. Being able to exclude the garbage would make me like it more :)