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anjanesh
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

.dropbox-ignore to prevent folders being uploaded to DropBox like git's .gitignore

Just like we have .gitignore for preventing files / folders to be uploaded to github, it would be nice to have the same for DropBox. I have a workspace folder with tons of node_modules folders. I...
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Steve A.13
Helpful | Level 7
10 months ago

Are there "Dropbox ignore settings"? Only on Linux?

 

Synching Dropbox ignore settings to .gitignore would be nice, but I'd be thrilled to have any way to have Dropbox ignore specify files or file types.

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    coder0xff
    Explorer | Level 3
    10 months ago

    The settings I'm referring to are the com.dropbox.ignored extended attribute that can be set on a per-file and per-directory basis. They can be set manually using the attr command. My script automates setting or clearing the attribute based on .gitignore. See https://help.dropbox.com/sync/ignored-files

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