You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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jvasileff
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

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...
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nickyhajal
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

DaphneAs jvasileff mentioned, this is awesome! Already putting it into action and taking it for a spin.

To build on their comment, I have a ton of projects that have a bunch of common folders like, "node_modules", "Pods", "vendor", "build", "public", etc. It's fairly challenging to have to manually go through all my projects and ignore those files.

Are there any plans to have a centralized place in the Dropbox app where we can add file patterns to ignore?

Thanks!

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