Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

Walter Gathering feedback and passing that to the team is indeed nice and I appreciate that it is done.

But please understand proposing solutions that users have repeatedly said don't fit their needs just signals that Dropbox is unwilling to even understand the request, much less act on it.

Sorry to hear you felt this way undegroundalien - it wasn't my intention at all. 

As I do understand the importance of this, I thought it would be nice to gather all feedback to pass along to the team so as to voice your concerns and requests. 

I know it's not optimal and I wish I could help more than this. 

Walter With all due respect, none of the "workarounds" are even close to what people's posted use cases actually need.

While I appreciate some sort of feedback, this answer is pretty condescending as it mischaracterizes the request and dismisses it without second thought.

But this hand-waving is what I'm learning to expect from Dropbox.

Hey there JMurph2015 - how are you today?

I am writing to let you know that while there aren't any plans to implement such function at the moment, I have made sure to pass all of your comments and suggestions to the dev team for review. Thank you for this feedback.

Should you need anything else, just let us know! 

Hey All, 

First off, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and ideas on how to improve our features and functionalities moving forward - I'll make sure to pass your comments to the team as feedback! 

In the meantime, mind that, as our Community Manager Ed has already outlined here,  there are no plans to implement such feature at the moment as there are several workarounds to solve this (for example moving the folder out of your Dropbox folder or using Selective Sync).

Having said that, I'd really like to help with this so I have passed all of your comments to the team in my internal report. If there's anything else I can do for you, just let me know! 

Cheers Folks!

I also want to see this.

Example usage: I've got a shared LaTeX project in a dropbox folder. Every time I compile it builds a crapload of auxilliary files which I don't want to sync that just annoy the other people in this shared folder. I already put them in a folder named aux_tex, but I still have to disable sync manually for every new LaTeX document I start.

PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE!

filesanywhere has had this cool feature for YEARS,  

my company used to use their service

this would cut my sync, indexing time in HALF, from 45 minutes to maybe 20 minutes,

so sad Dropbox is not capable of adding this,  

they should look into hiring some real coders, developers

Status Declined?!?

So angry right now

"Status changed to: Declined"

?!?

It took four years for you to decline the most frequently requested feature on Dropbox? If Sync.com has this feature, I'm switching later this week.

So long you awful, awful company.

Dear PhotonWarrier,

I apologize if I offended you.  This string appeared to be about reasons Dropbox should have the ability  for the user to specify files to exclude by filetype, and I was giving another example, at the same trime trying to be polite and give my reasons for using Dropbox rather than alternatives.  This is the first time I have posted to any such discussion group, and I will not do it again.  I have neither the time nor inclination to reply to personal attacks, as you apparently do.  I have plenty of other private venues for communication and to effect change.