.dbignore

Ignore folders & files in Dropbox.

43 followers

Ignore folders & files in Dropbox.

43 followers

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 withdbignore.

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crtrdg

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Hello Product Hunt 👋! 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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3yr ago

crtrdg

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I pressed launch and saw the url for this is /dbignore-2. Apparently this has been done before. This is unrelated to the other .dbignore project, which seems to have died sadly.

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3yr ago

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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3yr ago

crtrdg

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@mho22 Dropbox provides a facility itself to ignore files, which is what this app uses. Example: Set-Content -Path '[PATH]' -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1 So .dbignore, which is stored and processed locally, would function exactly the same as Dropbox's command line flag.

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3yr ago

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.

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3yr ago