Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

I use Rstudio quite a lot and I work on several different projects. I keep being interrupted by an "failed to save file" error message. The Rstudio crew says this is due to  the file being locked by Dropbox synching.

Beside the stopping synsching hack, the current solution is to manually exclude from synching each directory called .Rproj.user, which is tedious. What I would love to have is either to be able to exclude automatically these directories from synching or, at least, to have an option on the (Windows) context menu for excluding them with just a click.

I know that this problem is shared by many other Rstudio + Dropbox users. I imagine the same solution for file types would be appreciated by even more users.

I'm a NodeJs developer, I always sync my project with Dropbox.

But Nodejs have a folder called node_modules. It have so many files.

I don't want sync that folder

I have Googled. There are many same feature requests about this problem.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dropbox+don%27t+sync+node_modules

Also, there are many posts in dropbox forum.

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-without-selective-sync/idi-p/5926

I have send email to Dropbox support. They always doing "considering it and thanks for your feature request"

I'm tired.

We just want a function like ".gitignore" called ".dropboxignore", support regx.

Git with Github(Bitbucket) handle images or another file type not well.

Did dropbox web developers don't use dropbox to sync their codes?

Could Dropbox will solve our requests?

Yes please. Given that you there is no "ignore files/folders" option this would be the next best thing to use existing functionality and not have to go through the tedious menu to unsync folders like these.

Hi @ashutoshw3. I simple use MegaSync.
The Desktop App is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
And Yes. You can define recursive exclusions just like in .gitignore.
Another feature that was decisive in my choice is the ability to watch one or more directories that are outside the main sync folder.
Example: Documents, Music, etc ... Individually, without moving them to the main sync directory.

If Dropbox implements at least these 2 features I'll be using it again.

Hello!

For sure that Iam not the only that need this Simple option.

We just need a option to add a folder to a ignored list.

Because we need to upload a MAIN folder, but for example, inside this folder we have a folder that dont need to get uploaded.

Thanks!

I use Dropbox for syncing my development project files but every time all the libraries are uploaded to Dropbox which increases the size of the project by a huge margin. 

It would be very helpful if there is a file like .gitignore implementation for Dropbox sync which will ignore files to be uploaded.

Please implement this feature in the upcoming version, it would be a great help for all of them in the developer community. 

Dropbox has already implemented selective sync in the desktop client so this might not be a very difficult task for Dropbox.

Totally agree with this request!

I can't believe Dropbox has been ignoring this for so long when the selective sync feature is already there... We just need a different way to tell it what to ignore, something similar to .gitignore or, even better, just be able to tell it to use the existing .gitignore files!

In my opinion, part of the problem is that no other storage providers like Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive are doing that either, at least not that I know. Otherwise, we might see some progress as Dropbox would probably want to catch up with what others are offering to avoid losing users...

 +1
@Mark You are doing a great job at degrading Dropbox Inc's PR.

It has been a very popular request from developers which has been ignored for years by Dropbox. Implementing a .gitignore like logic would simply make dropbox usable by developers.

Actually, it is not.