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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
+1
It would be great! Currently I have a lot of ugly internal files on my recents list!
This was requested a million times and they keep ignoring it. It's so frustrating not have a simple way to ignore files/folders.
Any updates from Dropbox on this?
I love this idea! Thread which also references this problem (and this link potentially might end all conversations in this thread) https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201529949-Why-won-t-Dropbox-add-a-gitignore-like-feature-
I would love this! I really want to be able to ignore all the node_modules directories in all the node projects I sync with dropbox, sync's so many files that I really don't need.
