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.

[Josh E.5]

yeah syncing my 660,000 vendor project files every single day killed my SSD.

Should probably add that

[Random D.]

+1

[ilya d.]

+1

[Mirko]

+2^8

[TAM+CZ A.]

@Ed, this is not a new issue.  I mean no disrespect, but the development has supposedly been looking at this for over a year at least.  So can you just give it to us straight please?  If this has been ruled out as never gonna happen, I think we'd all just like to know.

[C. Ryan1]

+1

[Hugo C.10]

I need this functionality on Windows... please add it as soon as posible

[Vasiliy K.]

Oh, come on, just do it, pleeeease.

[Johnny W.2]

It's been over a year now. Hopefully we're getting closer to something that we'd all like to see.

A reminder: Upvote the original post in this thread to increase this issue's votes if you want to see it made a reality.

[Johnny W.2]

If you haven't seen it already, this is the main thread for this feature:

https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201289669-Ignore-folder-without-selective-sync...

Please upvote it if you wish to see it made a reality! Thanks.