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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 g...
Once upon a time, the Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi built dropbox to serve their needs. As I recall, 2007-2011 many venture capital folks turned them down because there were "too many file sharing tools out there", from FTP to web-based portals. Drew and Arash insisted none did what they needed and persevered with a great vision. They were right, the VC’s were wrong, and Dropbox became the #1 company in the space — a product I personally love and pay for. Unfortunately, serving investors has become more important than Drew and Arash's mission — providing right-and-true value needed by end-users. A sad situation in this particular case as it’s washed away and hidden behind "delivered".
Megan This feature was absolutely NOT delivered w/o a true .dropboxignore file, something every Dropbox engineer clearly understands. One critical use case for this requirement is to ignore all explosively large (and constantly changing) `node_modules` directories (that is often a child of multiple projects in a `dev` directory), but sync everything else. There are many other examples of developer / creative tools with cache directories that should NOT be syncing with Dropbox, sucking down bandwidth and cycles. Sometimes symlinks can be used, but often not, and targeted ignore as implemented does not work. It seems the decisions on this topic are likely too heavily biased with new revenue generation in mind. Please reinstate this community request and push it back up the ladder to someone responsible for product Vision + Value, balanced with new revenue generation.