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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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> but I don't see how that would be a useful feature for the general Dropbox user base.
You can think of this as a more flexible (advanced) "selective sync" feature, which is demonstratably beneficial to users today. This feature solves the annoyance of de-selecting folders manually over and over and over.
> that would cause many support tickets from users looking for folders or files that forgot they ignored globally
This can easily be mitigated by showing an icon on ignored folders. Selective sync already does this. The icon could even resemble the the .dropboxignore's icon to remind people that it was "de-selected" that way.
Also, generally only people who know about this feature will add it. They'll likely be savvy enough to recognize the folder icon or think to look at selective sync settings.
> Not sure there is enough benefit for that type of change.
The fact that this is the top issue on this forum and has 53 pages of comments is a strong signal that this is indeed beneficial for a significant number of people.