Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

Its been 3 years people, please add this feature, im not sure why its so complicated.

This along with renaming the dropbox folder to something else and my WORK PHONE to be able to upload WORK RELATED images into the BUSINESS FOLDER are sorely needed features.

In windows while having the dropbox named ( company name) sure sounded like a nice idea when you came up with it basically eats up a LOT of characters from the windows 255 character limit, and its unnacceptable, we have over 6 TB of data sored on the dropbox across 25 machines, while it wont matter to small users, its majorly cripling our coding operation.

To everyone here, I have managed 2 workarounds for these problems so far but every new version gets harder and harder to "fool" dropbox to make this workarounds work, and some of the workarounds dont work as well as wed like (the folder one you cannot create folders starting with . in windows, and cannot exclude hashtag files like *.tmp files or things like that) or are just plain ridiculous

To ignore a file:

Turn off the app that is locking the file, move the file somwehere else, create a folder with the EXACT same name as the file, go into selective sync exclude that folder, wait for dropbox to delete it, when dropbox finishes synching move the file back, it will be ignored from here on.

To rename dropbox to C:\Dropbox or D:\Dropbox.

Grab dropbox 2.4 old version offline installer, you can download it from the dropbox website in the archival area, you can only find this through google search, which is the last version that worked before they did the great dumbass idea to forcefully rename the dropbox folder.

Move your dropbox folder somewhere,

Go to Appdata / roaming / dropbox, delete everything there, (back it up first if you like)

Install 2.4, login to your dropbox account, as soon as you are logged in, hit pause, change your dropbox directory from C:\%userpath%\documents to C:\Dropbox, accept dropbox dialog saying its ok to move the files, once it finishes close dropbox, go to the C folder, create a folder called Dropbox (yourcompanyname) and remove all access permisions to the folder with windows security settings, this will ensure dropbox cant rename your dropbox folder again when you upgrade automatically, and yes if you ever give access to your account to this folder dropbox will automatically rename your dropbox folder without asking you, dropbox is CONSTANTLY trying to rename this folder non stop, and it pisses me off but not much you can do, as a backup i recomend you also add a folder just like this one to C:\%userpath%\documents just in case dropbox decides to move it back later. this way at least hes screwed and cant change your folder name to anything but dropbox because he PHISICALLY CANT, it gives you a little wiggle room for future versions changes or if someone at dropbox gets "creative" again with your file organization with zero regard to the implications of their desicions on their customers.

Once this is done,  turn dropbox on again, and hit resume synching, dropbox will update to the newest version and you will keep your dropbox folder where you want it (C:\Dropbox)

Weve had some problems with 3.14.7 that it logs you out whenever it upgrades from a very old version but we found a workaround upgrading manually to version 3.12.4 first using the offline installer, and then letting that one upgrade automatically to 3.14.7, and it works fine.

if you ever want to keep using your dropbox on the same folder on a new machine, repeat the create locked permissions folder steps, install dropbox with offline installer preferably not newer than 3.12.4 and copy the roaming dropbox folder from the old machine to the new machine after you install it, and after relinking your account again you should still keep the dropbox location where you want it.

If by now you are not going insane good for you, the point of all this was to show you just to how dumb and ridiculous this has gotten with the workarounds to get features that should have been included in the first place.

Dear Dropbox, PEOPLE THAT WORK AND USE DROPBOX FOR SERIOUS BUSINESS NEED TO RENAME WHERE THEIR FILES ARE FOR A MULTITUDE OF REASONS, NO, A SYMLINK WONT DO, PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE, its been 3 years now, please, this is getting ridiculous.

I hope these workarounds helped someone.