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by Etheryte 3274 days ago
While one of Dropbox's strengths is its simplicity, one thing that I think is currently keeping many enterprise customers away is detailed configurability – currently you only have manual folder-level control over what to sync. However, a very common use case is to autosync everything except certain types of files (certificates, keystores etc). They would probably see some quick adoptions if they covered detailed configuration and enterprise-level management in a good manner.
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The day dropbox can read and follow .gitignore in my folders I would be happy.

If I don't want version control over it I also don't need to back it up.

Continuously manually disabling syncing of e.g. binary build files, temporary log files etc from my projects. But you can not do it before they exist, only afterwards whilst dropbox is busy syncing megabytes of unneccesary files...

Though the linux client has a CLI that helps a little with disabling certain patterns but no mac equivalent.