Control selective sync programmatically

Hey Gregory.  Thanks for posting.  Really appreciate the tools and cross-device sync.  They've made my life a ton simpler in most cases.

You mention tracking the issue as a feature request.  Is there a canonical place to vote for it?  I upvoted this thread.  It appears to be one of many threads that reference a similar issue.  I wonder if the different threads are diluting its priority.

My particular use case that many other devs also struggle with:  As a dev, one command like "npm install" can generate thousands of tiny files in an auto-generated directory called "node_modules".  When I type "npm install", Dropbox goes into an indexing and syncing phase. I smack my forehead and say "Dropbox!!  No!!  Don't sync all those!!!" but it's too late.  I have to wait for 10all those tiny files to sync before I can even use selective sync on the node_modules directory.

A second use case, happening right now, is that Dropbox is getting in the way of working.  I just deleted a bunch of those directories, well over 400,000 files (which I would have ignored programmatically) that I created before I used dropbox, and dropbox has been syncing/indexing for over 24 hours.  That's fine.  However, I can't create a new folder ignored with selective sync because selective sync won't show new folders when it's still trying to sync/index other deleted ones.  Spending a lot of time on workarounds.  Any suggestions on how to get selective sync to see new folders before it's done syncing would be appreciated.

Anyway.  Thanks again.  Appreciate all your work and your responsiveness on this thread!

Adam