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's avatar
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...
Desktop
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sebastian_'s avatar
sebastian_
Collaborator | Level 8
5 years ago
A .dropboxignore would be a very simple straight forward solution for developers as it conforms to the .gitignore standard which is proven and already used globally by developers. Further, this feature / solution would not confuse general Dropbox users because it’s an invisible file that only developers would likely work with.
 
Per recommendation from @Lucil community advocate, please see the post below for a developer-grade workaround since the Swap-a-Roo Ignore Hack stopped working.
 
(Updated Link)
 
Hope this helps.

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