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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...
They are already ignoring folders. They call it "selective sync".
The only needed difference is that they will not DELETE THE CONTENT of the local folder when selecting it.
They could EASILY add this checkbox and do an IF statement to decide if they should delete the content of the local folder or not.
They simply do not care, and/or (as my guess) have a financial interest to keep it that way.