Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

I would like to see the feature like git has: .gitignore file where I can list specific folders and file names mask preventing them from syncing. I have tons of node_modules folders, *.tmp, *.log files. They are part of the projects and they consuming a lot of space but I don’t need them in my Dropbox. Selective sync is not the solution for this.

Hi everybody. As I am sharing quite some development projects in my Dropbox, I am facing the very same issues especially with folders which are deleted and re-created by build tools. I just published a first release of my little helper:

https://github.com/mweirauch/dropignore

It's a cross-platform command line application which allows you to configure a set of patterns to look for and ignore them if matching with the extended attribute method. I am only using it on a Linux distribution. MacOS and Windows builds are there, but haven't been tested except for integration tests.

Hope it's useful to someone.

PS: Please consult the README and search any open or closed issues before posting a new bug.

PPS: Please refrain from posting questions in the issue tracker. Thanks!

I have now moved on to tresoreit.com which has this featured built-in. It's almost the same price as dropbox and the desktop client doesn't seem to hog any CPU or RAM on my computer.

I followed the guide on this page:

https://support.tresorit.com/hc/en-us/articles/217103697-Exclude-specific-file-types-from-sync-advanced-

and I was able to ignore folders like node_modules and vendor (PHP packages folder).

It's a shame dropbox has decided to pivot from a cloud-based backup tool to what seems like a path to being an email client with google docs built-in.

It's been 6 years since this feature request was created and it clearly tells us where their priorities lie now, which was from being a file backup tool to now being google docs with half-baked file-backup utility built-in.

So long, Dropbox

I’ve already switched to Sync. Not only does it have this feature in an easy to use GUI, it’s less expensive. Even the free tier offers 5GB to Dropbox’s 2GB.

It just barely exists, and many commenters above have brought up issues with that proposed solution.

What we actually need is the ability to tell the Dropbox indexer patterns to ignore itself so that it can stop trying to process all files like, "node_modules", "vendor", "build", etc. that don't need to be synced.

It seems the feature  currently exists. See https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files

I think the suggestion https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Selective-Sync-Ignore-new-Folder-Events/idi-p/400058 should also be incorporated in this update.   I continually get folders created by users that I have no interest and being able to have an option to ignore new folder creation events would be very helpful.  

Quite often I am not aware of these folders being created and only learn of it after I get disc full errors.

I'm also looking forward to this option.

It is essential for me to sync my webdevelopment projects with DropBox, but they only need to be synced partially.
Now I have over 500.000!! extra files which dont's need to be synced (or only once in a while), but are a pain to manually deselect in the selective sync section.
It's taking a huge amount of space and slows down my computer A LOT.

Add this feature to the Linux client too, please.

When is this feature going to be available. It is "accepted", but the discussion is five years old!  I need this rather badly.