tfIgnore does not work for me in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I am pulling my hair out with trying to get tfIgnore to work in Visual Studio 2013.

I followed the instructions here: bottom of this artic

Answer 1

If the file or folder(s) you want to ignore changes to are checked-in to TFS, then ignoring them in .tfignore won't do anything - you have to remove them from source control first. That way any changes to them will be ignored.