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.

[Elad O.]

+100000 all my node_modules are syncing and my CPU goes 100% frequently.

[Shade S.]

+1 this would be really helpfull for maya users as we can ignore 'incrementalSave' folder which can contain really huuuuge files 😞

[Pieter D.]

+1

[Bowen S.]

+1

[Ralph S.7]

+1.  damn node_modules

EDIT: Tried mega.  does what we need, and I like some other features too.

[Piotr T.1]

+1

It would be great! Currently I have a lot of ugly internal files on my recents list!

[Erik P.7]

+1 for this feature. Would be nice if we can exclude files by using filters.

I have some Word documents on my dropbox. When I edit the file, Word creates a temporary file which is also sync'd and not deleted when I close the file again.

[Erik P.7]

Another example is editing Word documents. Word creates a temporary file ~$filename.doc which is sync'd and stays there after closing the document.

Edit: It seems that Word temporary files are now excluded in the newer Dropbox versions.

[Ben M.39]

+1

[John W.18]

+1 this would be extremely useful