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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 ditched Dropbox paid account. For development I use Arq, backing up directly to S3/Glacier and it has exclude patterns too.
I use Dropbox only for some documents and such, on the free plan.