dropbox-ignorer

Quickly set the Dropbox ignore flag on all folders matching a given pattern under $HOME/Dropbox. Can be used to easily remove all node_modules folders from your Dropbox account.

• Works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
• CLI only
• Very fast
• 0% fluff

C:\> dropbox-ignorer node_modules
2022/02/21 16:51:24 Scanning C:\Users\kichik\Dropbox for node_modules...
2022/02/21 16:51:24 Excluded C:\Users\kichik\Dropbox\some-node-project\node_modules
2022/02/21 16:51:24 Excluded C:\Users\kichik\Dropbox\another-node-project\node_modules
2022/02/21 16:51:24 Excluded C:\Users\kichik\Dropbox\sub\node\node_modules

Options

If you have multiple Dropbox folders, or your Dropbox folder is not under $HOME, you can use --dropbox-folder to specify another folder.

C:\> dropbox-ignorer -d D:\some\other\dropbox node_modules
2022/02/21 16:51:24 Scanning D:\some\other\dropbox for node_modules...
2022/02/21 16:51:24 Excluded D:\some\other\dropbox\some-node-project\node_modules

Other Solutions

• dropboxignore with support for .dropboxignore files
• dropbox-ignore-node_modules
• OSX Automator script
• StackOverflow: How to ignore node_modules recursively in Dropbox on a Mac
• StackOverflow: How to ignore files recursively in Dropbox using Powershell
• Gist: Recursively ignore node_modules in Dropbox. Git for Windows edition.