Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

[Tom_M]

Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a good explanation of why it's not there. A quick google search reveals loads of people also looking for the same feature. I really like the workflow I have with dropbox, but it's getting to the point where I might switch providers in order to allow better selective sync.

I've seen hackish solutions using selective sync, but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways:
- global pattern matching eg "node_modules"
- a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore
- a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder"

Other than that, keep up the good work. Cheers.
Tom

[Emma]

Hi folks, 

Thanks for your feedback on this.
While ignored files delivers for some of the use cases here, I appreciate it does not for all. 
We'll be taking another review of this thread to isolate use cases for a .dropboxignore file feature in particular.

I've updated the status and we'll take this to the product team.
As a side note, it would be helpful for us if you could outline the gap between what ignored files offers, and what a .dropboxignore file feature would add to your workflows.

Thank you.

[Ken L.30]

+1

[Charlie K.1]

And again a +1

[mym___]

Dropbox, you've lost me because of this and not only me I suppose...

[P V P.]

+1

Look, maybe if Dropbox made "exclude-file type" a feature available with the paid tiers. Would that motivate the company to implement this feature? I'd be willing to pay for a tier that has it.

[Stuart B]

+ 1

[poison b.]

+1

[Adam P.12]

+1

[Slebbo J.]

+1

since people already developed hacks that does this, why can't you do it?

[Jordan T.2]

@Slebbo, what hacks are you referring to?

[Slebbo J.]

@Jordan T.  

https://gist.github.com/idleberg/6c8a563e248103baaa20 (for linux)
http://konolige.com/dbignore/ (for Mac, but doesn't work with the latest version of Dropbox) 

If .dbignore worked, it has to be a relatively easy way for the dropbox team to solve this. 

I as many others here consulting of change syncservice to some other that provides ignore-feature.