Ability to exclude syncing certain files by type.
Box Drive - exclude syncing certain files by type. I use several software that use this lock file approach and the lock files should NEVER be synced. (sometimes for size reasons, sometimes for frequent uploads and deletes)
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Marcel Rossi
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Some Filetypes cannot be synced by design, because they are locked. For example some Applications are adding a temporary File with the Extension ".lock".
If we make a whole Folder available offline, the sync raises an Error, each time such file is created or updated in that offline-folder.
It would be great if we could define a List of ignored FileTypes/Extensions to avoid those Error-Messages and recurring sync-tries.
Thanks a lot!
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Anonymous
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I'm a developer and my projects are synced to box. Only, they are NodeJS projects so I have a huge node_modules folder (up to 150Mb). It would be awesome to be able to prevent a certain type of files/folder to be synced (with a blob for example, or a more user-friendly solution: manually entering prohibited file/folder name/path).
At the moment, this really is a problem for me. I can use pnpm to solve it, but still, this feature would be a great addition to Box!