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.

[Eric W.23]

I hope those of you adding +1 in the comments are actually upvoting the original post as well. 

[Alexander_V]

+100500

dropbox is locking files and has coflicts with Unity project and .git repo.

[Scott V.2]

+1!!!

[Ashton H.3]

+1

[Isaac B.2]

+1

[Gencebay D.]

+1 pls!

[Mitchell N.]

+1 This is causing serious problems with Vagrant. 😞

This feature is a must-have for developers!

[Fredy M.]

For Vagrant I recommend to check this out: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3362

[Julio C.9]

Dropbox please!

+1

+1

+1

[DaveC2]

Wondering what people would pay for a product like this?

We built one that ignores *.tmp??? files as the program in use by staff at this place was generating tmp save files every 5 minutes and we couldnt stop it.

Built for Windows its hard coded to that only but would not take much to use a wildcard/regex matching list.

Essentially it hides files from specified applications accessing the filesystem folder lists.