Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

Let me also say, that this is an issue that does not just apply to us few that commented on here. The internet is full of people wanting a feature like this: dropbox gitignore - Google Search. Many "solutions" have been proposed, all of which are either not updated in the last few years, actively broken by Dropbox updates or are utterly overcomplicated, like not blocking every file matching that name and instead having to select each one manually, defeating the purpose. None of the solutions is as simple and elegant as one built into Dropbox would be. Especially "moving the files out of Dropbox" requires lots of work and confusing file structures, defeating the purpose of easily syncing folders with my friends and colleagues.

A solution like this is required for many people to have Dropbox do exactly what they want and too many people have to live with workarounds, suboptimal solutions or even completely given up on that.

Please implement this feature! This is not directly meant as negative criticism, but as an illustration of the issue and its widespreadedness. I hope we can somehow get you to reconsider!

Thanks for elaborating on this undegroundalien - most appreciated. 

I can assure you that your feedback is always welcome and monitored. We're always looking for our users' input when creating the next version of the Dropbox app this why I made sure your comments are passed along to our dev team.

Have a lovely day!

Walter Gathering feedback and passing that to the team is indeed nice and I appreciate that it is done.

But please understand proposing solutions that users have repeatedly said don't fit their needs just signals that Dropbox is unwilling to even understand the request, much less act on it.

Sorry to hear you felt this way undegroundalien - it wasn't my intention at all. 

As I do understand the importance of this, I thought it would be nice to gather all feedback to pass along to the team so as to voice your concerns and requests. 

I know it's not optimal and I wish I could help more than this. 

Walter With all due respect, none of the "workarounds" are even close to what people's posted use cases actually need.

While I appreciate some sort of feedback, this answer is pretty condescending as it mischaracterizes the request and dismisses it without second thought.

But this hand-waving is what I'm learning to expect from Dropbox.

Hey All, 

First off, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and ideas on how to improve our features and functionalities moving forward - I'll make sure to pass your comments to the team as feedback! 

In the meantime, mind that, as our Community Manager Ed has already outlined here,  there are no plans to implement such feature at the moment as there are several workarounds to solve this (for example moving the folder out of your Dropbox folder or using Selective Sync).

Having said that, I'd really like to help with this so I have passed all of your comments to the team in my internal report. If there's anything else I can do for you, just let me know! 

Cheers Folks!

I also want to see this.

Example usage: I've got a shared LaTeX project in a dropbox folder. Every time I compile it builds a crapload of auxilliary files which I don't want to sync that just annoy the other people in this shared folder. I already put them in a folder named aux_tex, but I still have to disable sync manually for every new LaTeX document I start.

PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE!

This has been suggested time and time again, and it's still ignored.

I can only assume Dropbox has some kind of strange incentive not to do it.