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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...
I just stumbled across a this work-around. It is kinda obvious but never came to my mind. The idea is to use some local syncing software (e.g. goodsync) that allows filtering analogous to .gitignore to sync a local work directory that contains folders like node_modules with a synced folder that rests in dropbox and is a stripped down version of the full folder. I guess it solves the problem if space is not an issue.