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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
11 years ago
Status:
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 good explanation of why it's not there. A quick google search reveals loads of people also looking for the same feature. I really like the workflow I have with dropbox, but it's getting to the point where I might switch providers in order to allow better selective sync.

I've seen hackish solutions using selective sync, but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways:
- global pattern matching eg "node_modules"
- a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore
- a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder"

Other than that, keep up the good work. Cheers.
Tom

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  • Andrey S.2's avatar
    Andrey S.2
    New member | Level 1
    10 years ago

    My solution: Switched to MEGA, removed dropbox :) Profit + 50Gb Free ></p>

  • Johnny W.2's avatar
    Johnny W.2
    Helpful | Level 7
    10 years ago

    +1 PLEASE add this!!!

    You could easily add this as a super-advanced feature, hidden away, but it has now become pretty much essential for my day to day.

  • Erik B.8's avatar
    Erik B.8
    New member | Level 1
    10 years ago

    My previous Dropbox replacement when trying to get this feature, BitTorrent Sync, pissed me off tremendously.

    Now using SyncThing which is free and open source and has forever changed my idea of what file syncing should be like. Yay!

     

    How they do ignores can be found here, it's awesomely (can I even say that?) close to .gitignore: http://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

  • Erin D.2's avatar
    Erin D.2
    New member | Level 1
    10 years ago

    I switched over to syncthing just for this feature. It'd be nice to have in dropbox though.

  • Matt M.60's avatar
    Matt M.60
    New member | Level 1
    10 years ago

    +1001. I'm a titch insulted by dropbox continuing to ignore this thread. And I'm getting desperate enough to look for other solutions. btsync isn't good enough because I need my in-progress projects in the cloud, not just on my own computers. I don't trust MEGA. Despite my disappointment at the moment, I trust dropbox, and want you guys to get this feature in production.

  • Jeremy B.'s avatar
    Jeremy B.
    New member | Level 2
    10 years ago

    Insulted? I couldn't agree more.

    Meanwhile Dropbox continues to consume > 100% CPU with nothing being done. Starting to get a little peeved with their ignorance of this issue.