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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
11 years ago
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Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

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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Johnny W.2
Helpful | Level 7
10 years ago

I missed that earlier in the thread that someone HAS written a `.gitignore` for DropBox. 

http://konolige.com/dbignore/

It's called DBIgnore and claims to do everything we're all clamouring for. I'm going to give it a try and post back with my experiences.

EDIT: Sorry, my bad. It doesn't work :(

dbignore is currently broken

Recent versions of Dropbox do not work with dbignore. I currently lack the time fix dbignore.