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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...
ah sorry I didn't realise we were talking about remote connections. the OP wrote:
but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways:
- global pattern matching eg "node_modules"
- a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore
- a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder"
To me, thats exactly what 'don't sync to dropbox' does.
To be clear then, are you saying that if I were to set a folder as 'don't sync to dropbox' and then on another computer create a new file inside that very same folder and hit save etc it actually will sync/upload to the DB because that command is per machine?