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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
11 years ago
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Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a g...
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Mitchell N.2
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Looking into it more, there seems to be something in the Dropbox command line for linux that potentially functions as adding things to a .gitignore; It's called 'EXCLUDE', but the actual operation of this command is not very clear, and it seems like people have had a lot of problems with getting it to work. I don't currently have a linux system with Dropbox intalled, so I can't test it myself right now (I'll probably do it later if no one else does.)

 

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/using-the-official-dropbox-command-line-interface-cli#EXCLUDE

 

Also, there does not seem to be an equivilant version for Windows. (Maybe someone can get it to work through the new Windows10 Bash console: http://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-the-linux-bash-shell-on-windows-10/)