Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

Well, all I can say is that I'm greatly disappointed. I'm a really happy Dropbox Plus user, but this particular feature has become a necessity for me. I was hoping something changed before my DB Plus year ends next month, but this wasn't the change I was expecting.

Now, the thing is: does another service with this feature (ideally, ".gitignore" style) actually exist?

Ed Thanks for the reply. Took a little longer than I might have hoped to come to that conclusion. 3.5 years to be exact.

I concur with all other folk that the workarounds are not a practical solution. Workarounds are generally temporary and can be tolerated until there is a real fix. We now know the real fix is not coming. 

I can't deny that Dropbox has me well and truly snared due to the fact that I have so many shared folders with other people, but if I can convince all of them to go elsewhere then I'm sorted.

Thanks to the many thousands of people who supported this proposal. We tried our best.

Tom

So disappointing. Workarounds include not using Dropbox or using another cloud service. What a disgrace that a feature so widely and fervently requested would be declined with such an obviously ignorant reply.

It would be one thing if there were a technical hurdle preventing implementing this request. But simply declining the request without even acknowledging the use cases that fail to be met is a real kick in the face.

Dropbox will probably do just fine without expert users, but I for one will bemoan Dropbox and refer colleagues and friends to other services.

Wow.
Well, I'll stop using dropbox then. 

Hello all,

Just want to update this again to inform that there're currently no plans to implement such feature. There are several workarounds to solve this (for example moving the folder out of your Dropbox folder or using Selective Sync).

Thanks everyone for the passion and constant feedback.

+1

Something like how Tresorit does it.

[Ignore] //node_modules
[Ignore] //venv*
[Junk] //desktop.ini
[Junk] //Thumbs.db
[Junk] //.DS_Store

There you can just include the above in a ".tresorit/Filters/roaming.filter" file and voila problem solved. No more syncing 50.000+ useless files for every project.

Even if they didn't like programmers/engineers, such ignoring feature reduces their traffic and computational resources clearly.

Programmers are desiring this (at least we are),  and they may use this correctly as they wish.

Anyway, I can't understand why they haven't implemented this yet and won't answer to us at all.

Didn't they notice us? Can you hear me?

Maybe They just don't like programmers.

Simple because programmers use too much CPU resource than other user even with a filter list. 

So If programmmer leaves, they are happy.

Seriously, why hasn't this been implemented yet? Is none of the DopBox product managers a developer who has the same issues like the users from the previous 61 pages? You would believe that a smaller and flexible company would listen to its users.