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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 g...
Why won't Dropbox add a feature where you could automatically ignore files by name? I realize that this is a little bit of a niche feature, probably only needed by power users, but it would clearly be trivial to implement, and I've seen many users asking for this feature.
https://twitter.com/stormchild/status/453914697536794624
https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore
http://superuser.com/questions/731583/can-i-specify-certain-files-for-dropbox-to-ignore
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/35474/does-dropbox-or-any-other-similar-solution-ignore-files-based-on-regexp
http://www.quora.com/Why-wont-Dropbox-add-option-to-exclude-files-by-filetype-extension
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201289669-Ignore-folder-without-selective-sync-
You get the idea, several pages of Google results with people asking for a feature that would take probably less than a week for an engineer to implement.
Wouldn't be great to have a .droppoxignore file that works as the .gitignore file?
+1 please Dropbox do it!
I installed Dropbox today and within ten minutes I was looking for a way to ignore files by type. This is such a glaring omission.
AutoCAD produces heaps of DWG backup files (*.bak) and sometimes error logs (*.err). Why on earth would I want them syncronised to the cloud and to other offices?
Dropbox, please implement this.
This would be fantastic!!! +1
I have my projects folder backing up to dropbox, which contains vagrant VMs that I don't particulary want backed up specifically the .vagrant/ folder. In fact Dropbox will spike to 100%+ CPU when it even attempts to sync that. I actually have to turn off Dropbox while I work on a project that requires vagrant and then remember to turn it back on again.
I would absolutely LOVE a .dropboxignore
I also desperately would like this feature. It would save money to Dropbox as it would not have to continuously synchronize and keep unlimited backups of temporary files each time I do a compilation in Visual Studio for example.
I totally agree with you that it is very trivial to implement.Of course we could do it ourselves IF there was any API to hack with, but there is none for the Windows Desktop client. And the CLI interface on Linux is very limited. Having to build an alternative desktop client (assuming it were possible without sacrificing a lot of other features) just for this feature would be ridiculous. Ideally Dropbox could release the client as open source so we could tinker with it.
I have lost all hope in this matter, considering how they shut down Votebox a while ago and have not implemented any new feature for a long time (not even fixing certain bugs).
I .dropboxignore file would be great. I love using dropbox to back up my coding projects, but I want to ignore certain directories/files that match a specific pattern like for example the 'node_modules' directory or anything ending bin a '/bin' directory, this currently isn't possible as you have to specifically select each and every folder you want to ignore and there is no option for pattern matching.
I know there's devs over at dropbox, pass this message forward :) thanks people!
Couldn't agree more...this is killing us! We are seriously considering moving away now as this topic has been around for ages and Dropbox seem content to ignore it. I appreciate the developers are probably a very small percentage of their users but this, seemingly small, feature addition would help ensure that the likes of us stay with DB.
Here's hoping someone influential agrees and does something about it this time...
PLEASE!
I was just about to suggest the same...
+1 This would be so handy when coding web apps in my Dropbox -- being able to easily say that any "node_modules" or "bower" named directories at any level in the tree should be ignored from syncing.
This is the reason I'm slowly moving to other Cloud Provider:
Would be great to get a comment from the team to understand whether this feature is under development.
Yep, +1 for .gitignore support
From the "dbignore" project readme:
Recent versions of Dropbox do not work with dbignore. I currently lack the time fix dbignore.
Looks like "dbignore" it's not a viable option. I really wish Dropbix did something to implement this functionality.
+1, such an obvious feature, dropbox has crashed on me so many time because of node_modules. Let me ignore them with a simple .dropboxignore file or something along those lines
I've found http://konolige.com/dbignore/, but it's for Mac only
Any solution for Windows?
