Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
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Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
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Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#2The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta.
The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs.
This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#3The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta. The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs. This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
Who needs a VCS when you could just use Dropbox?
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#4This is good to know!
On Linux, Dropbox's CLI implements an 'exclude' command that you can apply to certain files/folders. But it doesn't always work.
I've had issues especially with Docker volumes, that I set to ignore, but dropbox gets stalled in a endless syncing status...
Hope this fixes it!
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#5The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta. The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs. This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
the problem with this solution seems to me that you can't easily recursively ignore e.g. `__pycache__` or `node_modules`. sure, it's less complexity than defining and parsing an oddball text file with potentially weird glob expressions, but also less powerful.
still, i'll definitely be making use of this!
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#6The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta. The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs. This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
I can imagine a world where a arbitrary directory is filled with gitignore, dropboxignore, googledriveignore, backblazeignore, s3ignore, rsynciginore, dotignore, ipfsignore . . .
Goddamn, stop the world I want to get off
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#7The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta. The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs. This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
I can imagine a world where a arbitrary directory is filled with gitignore, dropboxignore, googledriveignore, backblazeignore, s3ignore, rsynciginore, dotignore, ipfsignore . . . Goddamn, stop the world I want to get off
That's probably a clue something needs to be done at the OS level regarding FS integration with cloud syncing systems and permissions.
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#8That seems like an arcane solution, although I'm happy they finally added it
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#9The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta. The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs. This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
Who needs a VCS when you could just use Dropbox?
Even better, Dropbox as your VCS and database!
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_...
Re: Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
#10The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta. The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs. This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
> This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.
Why would anyone put a node project in Dropbox to begin with?