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.

[Vasiliy K.]

Thanks, upvoted there.

[Vasiliy K.]

+1

[Johnny W.2]

Hi Vasiliy, glad you made it over. Just so you know, writing +1 is not the same as voting. You actually need to click UPVOTE on the message at the top of this page.

[Vasiliy K.]

Thanks for clarification, but I did both 🙂

[Johnny W.2]

Oops. Apologies I thought the number hadn't gone up.

[TAM+CZ A.]

+1

[Jaycen R.]

Our Mac users are creating thousands of OSX files that start with "._." which are 4kb each. We would LOVE to exclude these from Dropbox!

[h. zhihang]

+10086

[Johnny W.2]

Woo! We broke 200 upvotes! More than double the number of its nearest neighbour.

Boo! We still don't know what Dropbox are doing.

[Luke R.9]

It would be great if files you didn't want to sync could be specified in a .dropboxignore file, with something like a .gitignore syntax. Or, even better -- develop a standard (e.g. .nosync) that others companies and syncing services could implement as well.