Such a vital feature! Please add it soon!

Syncing all my .git directories is a very bad idea...

Exclude extensions, .tmp, .temp, .dat...

Let the user decide which files or folders to exclude from for example "documents". Programs like Adobe store some files in "Documents"...these are also stored in proton drive, which i didn't want.

Incredible that this fundamental feature is still not implemented. My protondrive get stuck because it has to upload many many node_modules files which are just not necessary to be uploaded since you can just import them on deployement!!!!! FIX THIS ASAAAP

the lack of this is one of the things that most bothers me about using proton drive

Lots of people have already mentioned this. This is a very useful feature. Makes drive more useable. Please prioritize this!

This is the #1 feature request on Dropbox. There's so much money to be made for the devs who implement this. I'm still surprised this isn't built into all those services - after all, they are built by developers - and developers really don't want their package folders, temp files or compiled assets to be synced.

Came here looking for a Dropbox alternative for that exact reason - would have switched in a heartbeat.

This needs to be implemented! It would save energy and therefore money on both ends, proton and the user.

Without this feature, some folders synchronize very slowly and wasteful. Sometimes folders get deleted and uploaded again several times, taking literal hours to be completed.

Please add this feature ! :)

Please add this indispensable feature. We can no longer have our feet in two different places at once.

This should really be a built-in feature of Proton Drive. Implementing something like a `.protonignore` file—similar to what MEGA offers—would be incredibly useful.

As developers, we often deal with clutter generated during compilation or dependency installation, such as `node_modules`, `vendor`, and other temporary files. Being able to exclude these from uploads would streamline workflows and reduce unnecessary storage usage.

Adding an ignore file option could make Proton Drive more appealing to developers and power users alike.

I am shocked this isn't a feature already! Had I known, I might have reconsidered getting the yearly sub... :/

The ability to exclude by default (*.tmp) would probably save you a lot in bandwidth and storage space. not to mention speed up my transfer times.

Agreed, As someone who uses Unity this is a must, as it is now when syncing projects it is syncing 95,000+ un-needed files that average about 8KB each from "C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Unity\<UnityProjectName>\Library\ShaderCache" and while it is only ~~726MB of data it is enough to make it chug hard

Team, this feature is a requirement. It has been nearly 2 years since this was suggested without so much as a peep from Proton.

Bumping this - I have some .git repos that don't need to be stored in the drive, but it makes no sense to put them other than within the synced subdirectory. Being able to specify ignored file paths (eg. **/.git) is something I miss from mega.

The bigger issue is that file locks usually cause problems when I make several rapid commits (or amends).

completely agree this is a needed feature. I code, write, and game on one computer with no need for all my game launchers and what-not to be backed up; for the sole reason that they're all in Documents.

This would be very useful for me as a developer, especially excluding folder/files like .gitignore does.

Proton please add this