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by uallo 2187 days ago
I've been a paying Dropbox customer for over a decade. But I'm also planning on moving away (likely to Tresorit).

One of the things that really piss me off is that they still do not have a (good) way to avoid files from being synced by pattern. This was one of the top-requested feature requests in the good old Votebox that has been discontinued years ago. The community has been suggesting something like .gitignore but for Dropbox. Yet, they only now have added a half-baked solution for that: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignore... The problem with it is that it relies on xattrs and that obviously does not work for temporary, auto-generated files/directories in the first place. So instead of listening to their community they mainly add features that I cannot remember having seen in the Votebox at all. And they even manage to increase their prices.

PS: Tresorit has that feature and it works very well.