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Tom_M
Helpful | Level 6
11 years ago
Status:
Investigating

Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync

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...
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Antoni A.'s avatar
Antoni A.
New member | Level 2

It will be so useful if I could exclude certain files from syncing based on a file mask. Examples:
.tmp
*.xml~
mailbox.psd
aa.t??

Christopher N.1's avatar
Christopher N.1
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
11 years ago

Hi there,

Thanks very much for your feedback. At present, there are only a few file types that don't sync to your Dropbox account. See this Help Centre article for more information:

https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/files-not-syncing

If there are other files you don't want to sync to your Dropbox, I'd just recommend storing them outside your Dropbox folder.

Hope this helps!