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Dropbox has the ability to ignore files/folders: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/rest

by relyks 5y ago

Dropbox has the ability to ignore files/folders: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignore... It's not exactly the most user-friendly method, and you have to run a script to do that consistently for generated files/folders like those from npm

frosted-flakes 5y ago
That sounds quite cumbersome and inflexible. Why can't they just have a .dropboxignore file? Even so, Dropbox/OneDrive have other problems, such as only syncing a single folder and not syncing over the local network. Plus it's expensive.
- rrdharan 5y ago
  Dropbox syncs over the local network.
  - frosted-flakes 5y ago
    That's good to hear. I guess I assumed it didn't because I'm pretty sure OneDrive doesn't, and that's mostly what I used.
  - figassis 5y ago
    So they advertise, but I'm a long time dropbox user and every time I needed to sync to a new device in my local network, with all firewalls disabled and lan sync enabled...crickets.
- cmckn 5y ago
  > Why can't they just have a .dropboxignore file? Seriously though, this can't possibly be THAT much more difficult than fragile attributes on a filesystem node. If someone at Dropbox is reading: please, I beg of you.