Feedback wanted: Ignore List improvements

First of all, thank you so much for looking into improving Ignore List!

  1. What job are you performing that requires the Ignore List? - Development. For example node_modules folder might contain more than 50k files. Some ML files are super large and should not be synced.
  2. What were you using as a solution before Insync? - Bought Insync and swithed from Dropbox to Google Drive because of the Ignore List.
  3. What jobs could the Ignore List be solving but currently isn’t? - As mentioned above, folder specific ignore lists, notifications/confirmation on adding big or large amount of items, retroactive rules. I would love something like .insyncignore just using .gitignore wouldn’t be enough because I want to sync some project files that I do not want to commit to git.
  4. What difficulties are you having with the current ignore list that prevents you from doing the job or the work that you’re trying to do? - Its hard not to accidentally sync unwanted files and then to get them out of syncing again.
  5. How does the ignore list improve your daily work flow? - My macbook would otherwise be constantly on 99% CPU trying to sync up all the dist, node_modules, etc folders with many, large or rapidly changing files.
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