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.

[Sam B.27]

Make sure you click the original post and vote it up in addition to writing +1.

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

[Giorgio C.2]

I reiterate the screaming in the same direction. Please Dropbox add a feature (.dropboxignore or any other technical solution!) to exclude single files or whole file types from syncing. This would bring you at pair of some of your competitors, such as Carbonite, which allow syncing "preferences" at the single file level.

[Paulo I.]

+1

[Ryoichiro O.]

+1

[Eugene M.2]

+2 🙂

[Ashley C.5]

+1 for myself and the 130+ startup I work for. Looking into BitTorrent Sync

[Robert E.10]

+1 - one of the few reasons why I don't use dropbox for more things is that something like .gitignore helps control the cruft that would float between my computers

[Kenneth T.]

+1

[Eddie L.6]

+1

[Keigo M.]

+1