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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
11 years ago
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Investigating

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...
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elias b.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Agreed. There is cold be hidden for advanced users feature. We are all here by '.dropboxignore' keyword. So it wouldn’t be a problem to figure out how it works. Just implement it.

I just have stopped the sync of my Projects folder because it was 3Gb+. Mostly it was .git and node_modules folders. With such setup Dropbox is downloading file list forever. And consuming to much CPU