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.

[Raphael C.]

In a world where costumer relationship is king, it's very surprising that Dropbox is simply ignoring this post, specially on its own product feedback forum.

[Ryan S.20]

This is the most voted topic in this section of the community. They really need to step up and comment on it.

[Oscar Javier N.]

+1!

[Maros H.]

+1

[Nikolaos G.]

Just purchased PRO today and really need this feature.

Excluding by file type is part of almost EVERY backup software.  Hard to imagine this feature is not there when much more advanced things like following symbolic links is there!!!

Hope to see it sooner vs. later.

--Nikolaos

[Maximilian H.2]

In the past I used the DropboxFilter project to do exactly that. I updated it so that it works again with the current version of Dropbox.

You can find everything you need here:
https://github.com/mheinzler/dropboxfilter/releases/latest

Hope it helps you too.

[Georgi P.]

Same situation, just bought Pro couple of days ago and didn't even have a thought that files patterns can be still unsupported here... Surprises me in a negative way.

Note also, that adding this feature will not only bring a lot of benefits to your customers, but will also reduce the load on your servers as well.

[Guy S.6]

+1

[Pieter D.]

+1

[AzKai]

+1 !

Funny, I looked for this because of node_modules, too. Haha.