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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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Michael-
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

@Ben C.21 I think you know that this is not the feature everyone is asking about. Being able to check a box for _one_ folder on _one_ machine is not helpful. Most of the requests here are about ignoring entire classes of directories from being synced (dependency directories like "node_modules", build directories like "target"), and this is not possible in Dropbox.