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.
Forum Discussion
jvasileff
6 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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...
hardcodet
5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
The Powershell hack is completely broken, at least for developers. You just go to another machine and create that ignored folder (e.g. by building), and you're in a world of pain again.
Still can't understand that developers themselves wouldn't just add the .ignore file option as the initial and trivial solution. Gotta be honest: next time I'm taking on a software development project where I use Dropbox along with Git, I'm off to the competition...
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