Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

Are we able to use the .dropboxignore file feature? Why is the status changed to delivered?

dafuq? 

That does NOT deliver the feature originally requested? We want a .dropboxignore file where we can exclude files via regex but the file itself obviously needs to be synced and cross-platform compatible!!

Lars P.3 Done too.

Interesting thing: yesterday I contated Dropbox support to provide me any estimates on this idea or ask development team for such information. And today we have...hmm..we have a "solution".

I'm completely disappointed in Dropbox. Looks like they just wanted to shut us up. I think "Delivered" status means they will never return to this thread. Such a simple feature we asked for, and such awful implementation and attitude to us.

Lars P.3Thanks for the tip - done!

Click on the "burgermenu" on Megan's post and report as "inappropriate content". I don't know what she was thinking. She must have woken up in the wrong side of the bed or something.

MeganCan you please provide evidence of your statement? If not, please change the status back.

I beg everyone to report Megan 's change of status to get this unmarked as "Delivered"

Megan I'm absolutely livid that you want to gaslight us to tell us this is delivered. Not only does the proposed solution NOT EVEN PREVENT LOCKING AND SCANNING OF IGNORED FILES/FOLDERS (causing tons of errors), it's nowhere near sufficient to our requests. WE HAVE BEEN SCREAMING THIS FOR YEARS AND DESPITE BS RESPONSES AND PROMISES, WE HAVE BEEN DELIVERED NO USABLE SOLUTION. 

This extremely important feature request has been a major inconvenience for a sizable portion of your community for nearly a decade and have been given nothing but insufficient responses despite detailed explanation as to why the proposed solution is not sufficient. This is a DAILY issue for me and it's extremely frustrating how you have ignored all the comments clearly stating how the solution is not sufficient FOR YEARS!!!!! 

If I try to compile a Visual Studio project in dropbox without disabling sync (even with the "obj" folder ignored), files still get locked, causing compilation errors every single time. I primarily use Dropbox to keep an active backup of my coding projects. 

No, this has NOT been delivered. The proposed solution is not what we are asking for. 

First of all, it isn't cross-platform.

Second, you have to specify it on every machine you synchronize to. 

Third, and most importantly, the information on what folders should be ignored disappears if the folder is deleted. Many tools create folders on the fly, eg node_modules, and just recreate them if they have been deleted. 

Fourth, there are concurrency issues. Computer a creates node_modules and starts to synchronize it. You ignore it and it is deleted from the cloud. Computer B now creates node_modules and synchronizes it. What is computer A now supposed to do with the new cloud folder that it ignoes?

Just implement a .gitignore style. It is not that difficult. koofr has it, and it works flawlessly.