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How can I exclude file extensions form being synced? I have a mega big temp file (temp database log file) and it slows down my entire laptop. K
Norah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffit's been 18 months. This feature could be really useful for me as well. How it's coming along? Any chance we'll ever see it shipped?
I have been having problems with dropbox causing both WinEdt and Visual Studio to fail repeatedly. The problem is that dropbox locks file temporarily, and then WinEdt fails to Latex my file, or Visual Studio fails to compile. This is getting to be a major problem for me.
One way around this is if I could exclude filenames by file type from dropbox syncing. For Visual Studio it is always the PDB file (which is pointless to backup), and for WinEdt it is always the PRJ file (which is nice to back up, but certainly not crucial to back up).
Dropbox should either add the ability to sync by filename extension, or stop locking files on me, or better, do both.
You need to submit a Ticket ASAP.
((Are you using smart sync?))
I stumbled across this thread when looking for the exact same feature.
I have requested this feature to the Dropbox Businees Ideas board:
Go and vote for it and hopefully we will see it added soon!
Hello Norah,
Could you give us a clear status as to whether this feature prioritized in the roadmap / is being considered?
I sync some subfolders to Google Photos and this generates a large amount of temporary .driveupload files. It is impossible to configure these to be generated elsewhere, so they are picked up by dropbox and then deleted once Google Photos is done with them. Dropbox's CPU usage goes up substantially when this occurs.
It seems like a basic client-side feature to not parse certain files if they have an extension matching a pattern. UI + logic code and testing is probably something that can be done within one sprint or two max. I even don't mind having to replicate this setting on all my clients manually if the issue is that this flag won't sync server side to all clients.
Please let us know.
Thanks,
David- Rich
Super User II
dstgermain wrote:
Could you give us a clear status as to whether this feature prioritized in the roadmap / is being considered?
Dropbox doesn't provide ETAs or discuss what features may or not be coming. If they plan on adding it, we'll know when it's released.
- That’s an unfortunate way of dealing with feedback. They should follow Atlassian’s example and have public votes on paying user requests / expose when items are prioritized in their roadmap.
I have exactly the same concern. .tmpupload keep being sync and deleted from the dropbox folders which I need to sync to Google photos. This is a pain for CPU and bandwidth.
I would like to exclude them from syncing.
Would be a really good feature. I work with simulation files (that has to be sharable) that generate huge temp files in the background in the same directory. The simulation files itself are quite small and contains the only valuble info.
Perfect solution would be e.g. ability to block *.raw files in directory Dropbox/sim directory (limiting to certain directory would make sure the block doesn't mess up elsewhere)I believe there's no point in waiting for it. I've already switched to another solution which is cheaper, more flexible and has this feature. Dropbox seems to care only about selling their pointless data plans and not about adding functionality that really matters.
