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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...
Absolutely not just a developer issue. I (used) to the use the selective sync fudge to leave out machine specific files when syncing an application across mulitple devices. It worked fine and I was happy.
Now it's broken and that increase in subscription fee is looking like poor value for money.
I believe that the selective sync behaviour is determined by the local Dropbox setting somewhere. I used to have the old behaviour until I completely deleted and reinstalled Dropbox and redownloaded all my folders recently on my Mac. And selective sync never worked the same anymore. Maybe there is some setting or metadata somewhere we can set to choose this. My other Windows machine still has the old selective sync on the same folders, so it's not some global online setting.
As if all the issues web developers are facing with Dropbox is not enough, I don't think anyone has yet brought up the issue of temp files? For example, every time someone opens an Adobe InDesign file, an .IDLK file is created in the same directory (probably for file recovery), and this file is then deleted when the InDesign file is closed.
So these .IDLK files are constantly being indexed and synced with Dropbox for no reason.
So once again, we need a global ignore feature.
At the risk of piling on, I feel it's important to add another voice to the list:
If this isn't a .ignore style file-based solution or, at the very least, a UI-based list of file/folder patterns (like every other solution currently in existence) it will be essentially useless.
The same is true if the files are still being indexed and processed but not uploaded. I have multiple tools where there's no trick to get the folders out of the hierarchy and they change often, leading to 20% CPU use spikes while Dropbox goes to work. It also locks files which causes automated copies to fail which leads to rebuilds and more of my life wasted.
I'm pausing syncing at this point which means I'm losing out on meaningful use of one of the core features I need, file versioning. If something happens, I don't want to lose a full day of progress.
Thanks for finally getting around to this feature, but I'm in agreement with everyone here that the file-attribute version is a non-solution.
+1
Lack of such a feature is killing dropbox for me as a developer.
