I was deeply chagrined today to find that the ignore list doesn’t take full paths into account. I’m trying to ignore my web projects directory, but I don’t want to ignore all files or folders called Web. This seems like an unnecessary limitation. What I’d like to see is something like Unison’s path handling (though without the seemingly useless “Path” and “Name” distinction). It would be something like this:
Ignore Rule Path Specification
All paths are relative to “My Drive”. E.g., My Drive/my-files/chow-mein.txt would be targeted with either /my-files/chow-mein.txt or simply my-files/chow-mein.txt
All characters are valid and are escaped after rule processing
Paths are case sensitive
Standard globbing applies
You could probably preempt the next complaint, too, by adding an option for regex :).
+1
I don’t want to create a separate insync folder, and within have links to other folders. I want to have the insync folder be d:, my data partition, and exclude certain paths within it.
Update: I am starting to see an advantage of a separate insync folder, but only if it gave me access to online files, that I don’t want stored on the local drive. I believe this would be an implementation of Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)
@mekineer I’ve added +1 to the feature request for ignore list supporting specific paths, but unfortunately can’t promise that it’ll be available any time soon! Thank you for the feedback!