Exclude folders/files
Thank you for the desktop application, it was necessary and I am very satisfied, excellent job. On the other hand, it would be very useful to have the ability to exclude files/folders, either by selecting them or using a regular expression. For example, excluding folders like 'node_modules'.
Juan Lopez
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Leni
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Thanks that there is now a Windows app!
This finally makes Drive usable under Windows!Good idea, I would like to have that.
And also a good idea to add a function to ignore "My Files" and the associated "offline capability".Without ignoring folders, Drive syncs itself!
I really don't need the offline search function. For me, it would be perfect as a pure "sync folders-2-cloud" app.
That way I would have a real archive outside my computer for things I want to keep but only need occasionally, and a backup app.someone else already had this idea:
https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/47234837-allow-to-have-sync-and-backup-as-different-feature#comments -
GRF
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In the desktop application, I can only select "My Documents" for backup rather than subfolders. I don't need all folders to back up and would like to be able to select the ones I want to include in the Proton Drive sync.
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CK
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Yeah, I also submitted an idea to increase the number of synced files at a time, since most of the data would be trivially small, but having a simple pattern matching exclusion would make this much more powerful.