Very urgent feature; ProtonDrive is unusable for me because of it. Especially with nodejs

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?))

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.