diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6d37e16..a29f258 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@ volumes/*
 # Allow tracking of seahub_settings.py specifically
 !volumes/seafile-data/seafile/conf/seahub_settings.py
 
-# Ignore everything in seafile-data except the specific path to seahub_settings.py
+# Keep seafile-data, seafile-mariadb, and seafile-memcached directories but ignore their contents
+!volumes/seafile-data/
+!volumes/seafile-mariadb/
+!volumes/seafile-memcached/
 volumes/seafile-data/*
-!volumes/seafile-data/seafile/
-!volumes/seafile-data/seafile/conf/
-
-# Ignore everything else in seafile-mariadb and seafile-memcached directories
 volumes/seafile-mariadb/*
-volumes/seafile-memcached/*
+volumes/seafile-memcached/*
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