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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...
I too need such a feature. I'm using Unity and the xattr method doesn't work for the Temp folder which gets created and deleted constantly. Selective sync used to work fine for this and indicated with the gray minus icon. But in recent versions of Dropbox, creating a folder with the same name now gets instantly renamed to "Temp (Selective Sync Conflict)". This causes Unity to crash immediately because it can no longer find its files.
Someone else has experienced this as well:
Can't use selective sync to ignore (node_modules) folders anymore
Kind of a shame really. Dropbox (as a company) has clearly underestimated the number of its users using the selective sync fudge (ie create a folder with the same name as the file you want to exclude etc etc)
They removed/broke this and don't have a legitimate solution ready to go in its place, leaving people high and dry and probably investigating other platforms for a solution.
This kind of behaviour never bodes well for the share price btw.
yeah, if anyone has suggestions for other platforms that handle developer usage sensibly, I'd be happy to hear...
