I sync personal dev proyects, when there is a virtual environement it syncs it. WOuld be great to be able to filter such folders. IT would be less storage wasted, faster sync and everybody happy.

Cette fonctionnalité est critique pour moi. Je n'ai besoin de synchroniser qu'une partie de mes dossiers, mais impossible d'exclure un sous-répertoire précis sans retirer tout le dossier parent du sync. Résultat : soit je synchronise des données que je ne veux pas mettre sur le cloud, soit je dois réorganiser toute mon arborescence pour contourner cette limite. Un simple mécanisme d'exclusion (sélection manuelle ou fichier type .protonignore) réglerait le problème sans complexité inutile pour les autres utilisateurs. Merci de prioriser cette demande, portée depuis 2023 par plus de 700 votes.

Why has this not been developed yet? Heck, I know many of us in the Proton ecosystem would make this happen in a weekend if Proton Drive was open sourced or had a plugin API. The load benefit alone would save Proton a ton of money considering the development cost is trivial, plus, the benefit to power users is enormous. Like Emil just mentioned, rip off Git and have a .protonignore file of some sort!

I agree, a .protonignore-file would be a great compromise to target the advanced users while keeping the less technical ones from accidentally excluding any content.

This is crucial. I can't have git repositories in my drive folder without the repo getting stomped, and temporary lockfiles keep getting synced too. There should be a .protonignore file like .gitignore

high prio!

This should be extremely high priority, this is not even a highly complex task, nobody has to reinvent the wheel here. Other cloud storage providers have had this functionality for years and charge much less. I really want to give proton a chance soo... take some intern and make him do this, please...

P.S. as a nice side effect, the whole system would be under less load just by this simple feature. Imagine all the unwanted libraries that are fully synched just because there is no exclusion, libraries that are changing constantly and each client checking for changes and uploading/downloading them unnecessarely.

Use KIMI to code this, but pls ship ASAP. Thanks Proton Team ( :

This really needs to be added, I'm wasting time each time I'm syncing files I don't need to sync and then I waste space storing those files on my drive.

yes as many others have said this NEEDS to be put into place, syncing tracking files and local database files cipples apps!

I can only repeat and emphasize the many requests for the capability to configure the functionality of sync to a user's particular needs:
-> exclude selected files / file types / folders from being synced
-> designate files / file types / folders to being synced only upward
-> designate files / file types / folders to being down-synced only on demand
PD will be much more useful with those capabilities!

What is the point in a cloud service where you can't exclude folders? There have been comments requesting this for over three years. Why is this still not offered?

I cannot use Proton Drive to backup/sync my documents folder because the folder has hundreds of gigs of VMs, and also tens of gigs of gaming stuff that I do not need, nor want, synced. That's also true of several directories in my photos folder which are backup dumps of my cellphone which I keep around because I have the space, despite being backup elsewhere. The lack of excluding directories renders Proton Drive useless.

Please implement a functionality which is similar to gitignore. It is such a pain with all this temporary files, which are created by so many applications.

I would definitely like more choice. Having just installed proton drive desktop, I ESC'd out of the pop up menu.

I just want to use the drive as a go-between for some things, not back up things. When I saw it syncing files I did not want it to sync and never asked for it to sync...

Well, I had to figure that out. And so I found this.

I understand the majority of users may wish to use Proton Drive in the way that it default.

I want to selectively add things, not automatically add things — this adds nuance that should not be too hard to add.

As I'm testing it out, I am considering upgrading to more storage... but I have to make sure it works for my use cases. :)

Would love to have this feature, especially if it worked like .gitignore does.

This is super critical, impossible to user proton drive as developer switching between computers. Node modules alone take hours. ignore feature is so easy to setup, please implement already.

bump. This is a mandatory feature for file syncing programs

bump. This is a mandatory feature for file syncing programs

Proton Drive needs file-level sync exclusions!

What I'd love to see:

- Exclude specific subfolders anywhere in the sync tree (not just top-level)

- Exclude files by extension (`*.tmp`, `*.log`, `*.DS_Store`, etc.)

- Exclude files by name or glob pattern

- A `.protonignore` file (similar to `.gitignore`) that you can drop into any folder