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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ccd1's avatar
ccd1
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

For anyone else who is sick of it and has the option, seafile handles this issue very elegantly. Wish I had made the change months ago.

  • Daphne's avatar
    Daphne
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    5 years ago

    Hey again everyone, thanks so much for sharing all your feedback on this with us here!

     

    Just wanted to let you know that this has all been shared with the developers and we'll let you know as soon as possible in regarding any updates on this feature.

     

    In the meantime, please feel free to send along any other feedback you have and I'll make sure to keep our devs updated too.

     

    I hope you all have a great day and stay safe!

    • Yehuda D.'s avatar
      Yehuda D.
      Helpful | Level 6
      5 years ago

      Hi Daphne,

       

      From the help page (https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files), it seems that you can right-click on a file/folder in the desktop app and click "Don’t sync to dropbox.com."

      I'm running 99.4.501 (latest stable version as of 6/24/2020), but I don't see any such option for the files and folders that I right-clicked on. Was this help page updated prematurely?

       

      I'm not a business user (which the help page says it doesn't work for yet).

       

      Thanks!

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