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What bothers me about Dropbox is that many of the complaints I had 7 years ago are still there... For instance, I can't exclude folders and extensions, which m

What bothers me about Dropbox is that many of the complaints I had 7 years ago are still there... For instance, I can't exclude folders and extensions, which messes up my workflow a lot (e.g. I can't exclude .git folders)

blakeyrat 11y ago
Years ago I tried to buy a gift subscription of Dropbox for a friend so we could collaborate. Still impossible. These guys can't even manage GIFT CERTIFICATES, I'm not surprised they have trouble with actual technical issues.
- vox_mollis 11y ago
  Why do you take the punishment? There are tons of other storage+sync providers available.
- lazy_lizard 11y ago
  https://www.dropbox.com/gift https://www.dropbox.com/gift
- lazy_lizard 11y ago
  https://www.dropbox.com/gift https://www.dropbox.com/gift
  - WillKirkby 11y ago
    "Sorry! Gifting isn’t available in your country yet. Sign up for notifications, and we’ll email you once it’s available."
    - shinratdr 11y ago
      I got the same message in Canada.
  - blakeyrat 11y ago
    Wow, that must be brand-new. I was looking for it a couple months ago, and all I found was a million support posts about "why don't you offer gift accounts?" and a few promises that it was coming soon, really, posted back in like 2009.
shinratdr 11y ago
> What bothers me about Dropbox is that many of the complaints I had 7 years ago are still there... People have been complaining about the AppData binary thing and the roaming profiles issue since Dropbox launched. I thought that FINALLY, after they had launched Dropbox for Business, it would come with an announcement that they had fixed Dropbox on roaming profiles and started storing the binary properly. Nope. Just a branding initiative. I managed to screw around with it enough to get it working on my profile, but I've been unable to repeat that success, even with admin access. So, so annoying. iTunes works better in a corporate environment than Dropbox does.
pimlottc 11y ago
As a workaround, you can tell git to use a different git-dir folder that's not within the working copy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505467/can-i-store-the-git-folder-outside-the-files-i-want-tracked/505517 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505467/can-i-store-the-gi...
addandsubtract 11y ago
You can ignore .git folders before initializing your repository [0] [0] http://aditya.vaidya.info/blog/2013/08/25/using-dropbox-and-git-peacefully/ http://aditya.vaidya.info/blog/2013/08/25/using-dropbox-and-...
- hyperknot 11y ago
  About using the selective sync dialog: it takes me about 5 minutes to just load the folder list in the GUI, and it's on a quad-core Macbook Pro with 120 Mbps internet. I believe a perfect solution for power-users would be a support for '.nodropbox' files, which would disable selective sync for a given directory and it's subfolders. An even better idea would be '.dropboxignore' files, using the same syntax as '.gitignore'.

blakeyrat 11y ago

Years ago I tried to buy a gift subscription of Dropbox for a friend so we could collaborate. Still impossible. These guys can't even manage GIFT CERTIFICATES, I'm not surprised they have trouble with actual technical issues.

vox_mollis 11y ago
Why do you take the punishment? There are tons of other storage+sync providers available.
lazy_lizard 11y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/gift https://www.dropbox.com/gift
lazy_lizard 11y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/gift https://www.dropbox.com/gift
- WillKirkby 11y ago
  "Sorry! Gifting isn’t available in your country yet. Sign up for notifications, and we’ll email you once it’s available."
  - shinratdr 11y ago
    I got the same message in Canada.
- blakeyrat 11y ago
  Wow, that must be brand-new. I was looking for it a couple months ago, and all I found was a million support posts about "why don't you offer gift accounts?" and a few promises that it was coming soon, really, posted back in like 2009.

shinratdr 11y ago

> What bothers me about Dropbox is that many of the complaints I had 7 years ago are still there... People have been complaining about the AppData binary thing and the roaming profiles issue since Dropbox launched. I thought that FINALLY, after they had launched Dropbox for Business, it would come with an announcement that they had fixed Dropbox on roaming profiles and started storing the binary properly. Nope. Just a branding initiative. I managed to screw around with it enough to get it working on my profile, but I've been unable to repeat that success, even with admin access. So, so annoying. iTunes works better in a corporate environment than Dropbox does.

pimlottc 11y ago

As a workaround, you can tell git to use a different git-dir folder that's not within the working copy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505467/can-i-store-the-git-folder-outside-the-files-i-want-tracked/505517 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505467/can-i-store-the-gi...

addandsubtract 11y ago

You can ignore .git folders before initializing your repository [0] [0] http://aditya.vaidya.info/blog/2013/08/25/using-dropbox-and-git-peacefully/ http://aditya.vaidya.info/blog/2013/08/25/using-dropbox-and-...

hyperknot 11y ago
About using the selective sync dialog: it takes me about 5 minutes to just load the folder list in the GUI, and it's on a quad-core Macbook Pro with 120 Mbps internet. I believe a perfect solution for power-users would be a support for '.nodropbox' files, which would disable selective sync for a given directory and it's subfolders. An even better idea would be '.dropboxignore' files, using the same syntax as '.gitignore'.