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.dbignore — Ignore folders & files in Dropbox
Now you can make Dropbox ignore files & folders (looking at you node_modules!) The #1 missing feature, requested 1,000's of times. And now it's available with .dbignore.
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Topher
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Hello Product Hunt đŸ‘‹!
I built dbignore because despite being the #1 most requested feature for Dropbox, it still hasn't been added as a first-class citizen for Dropbox.
dbignore solves that problem. It runs as a background process, automatically applying the rules you've specified as files are created, renamed, or moved.
Rule creation is done following the same patterns as the .gitignore files are might already be familiar with.
I can't wait to hear all your feedback!
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Ok, we need this. I may be dropbox ignorant be I have another related problem kind of related to .dbignore at some opint. I share a dropbox with a friend, I store a lot of files on it but only half of the files need to be synchronized with my friend, could it be possible to have a sort of "local" .dbignore ?
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@sentry_co No, it's a tool to directly utilize dropbox own command line flag in a reasonable manner.
Interesting idea. I would have needed that when I was still uploading projects to Dropbox.
But now I find it better to get used to a Git workflow and then upload everything to one of the available Git platforms. It's also pointless to always save all the node_modules stuff, it eats up a lot of file storage resources.
