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'.
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Tobilos commented
Critical feature! Otherwise I can't store all my data in my proton drive. It would kill my local hard drive!
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Ouigo commented
Critical feature to me! I have a few programs that create subfolders in a folder I want to sync, but I hve no need to sync these subfolders...
Moreover, it would be nice if the "hidden" folders are NOT synced. -
Dispersed commented
Can't believe this isn't even a thing, and has this little votes compared to other features!
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Cipher G commented
I agree with this. I work with design and 3d software and they have "lock files" . For example, Adobe InDesign has .IDLK files which aren't necessary to be synced.
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ZENK. IT commented
the Proton Drive App even stops syncing when a file is found that is unknown. Also the fact that a file is not automatically skipped when in use by another program is strange. with this the ProtonDrive is really unuseable.
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Marcin commented
100% must have
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Reptile commented
I was really shocked when I realized that the Mac desktop app doesn't have this feature. Every other cloud service has it.
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Jayce commented
This is an extremely important feature to me as well. Being able to exclude certain subfolders is very useful. For example, my documents folder on my PC I have set to sync, but one of the games I play dumps all chat logs to a folder in the documents folder. This is hundreds of small text documents that back up the sync queue, and I really don't need backed up.
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Cmpte Pro commented
Very urgent feature; ProtonDrive is unusable for me because of it. Especially with nodejs
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Kostya Somin commented
Wow i have same issue with node_modules folder, hey frontenders from proton, i am sure you understand us guys . thats folder does not need to be synced, please can you say your boss to make it?))
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Jomar Askim commented
This feature is sorely needed. For example, in my Documents-folder, there are about 2,5 GB worth of cache-files for Battlefield 2042. I really don't need that taking up space in the cloud-storage.
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Anonymous commented
I have a similar use-case. I develop Flutter apps and while I use git, I use folder sync to back up in-progress work. I don't want to sync builds, though, as they're very large, but unnecessary to back up.
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Nomen commented
I agree with this suggestion. I would even ask if it were possible to add support of ignore rule files like .gitignore and others to avoid syncing useless and cached data.
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Leni commented
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 commented
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 commented
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.