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.

[Daphne]

Hey @digiwombat!

At the moment, I don't have any further info to share on this I'm afraid. If I do receive any further news, I'll make sure to update you all here.

Thanks!

[LHT26]

I must be in the beta group because it does work well for me. Thanks for finally making this work! I followed the help article and have no longer node_modules in my dropbox. 🙏

[fcoclavero]

Please please implement this feature. As a developer, it is sorely needed.

[FrankieHobbins]

adding my support for this change to go ahead, hopefully it gets done before it causes me to cancel my dropbox account!

[Daphne]

Hey everyone!

If you have any feedback on this feature while it's in beta, please feel free to share this with us on our dedicated thread here.

This will allow us to track the feedback much more effectively.

Thanks all and have a wonderful day! 

[ridvanaltun]

i wanna work smarter with dropbox 🙂

[gibbsy]

Thanks for finally implementing a solution for this - it works well for me.  

[totesmagotes]

Set-Conent -Path <path>

cmdlet set-Content pipeline position 1

Supply values for the following parameters:

Value[0]: <I then have to type something here, so I typed:

Value[0]: -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1

It then asks me for Value[1], so I don't know what to type here, so I just press enter.

Set-Content: Access to the path: <path> is denied. Unauthorized Access exception.

I ran powershell in administrator mode.

[borkdude]

Can you please add me to the beta program so I can test this? I need this feature because my Rust projects are causing problems related to the target directory which should be ignored by Dropbox.

[Daphne]

Hey @borkdude!

While we can't opt you in directly for this, we're working on rolling this out to more users.

In the meantime, I can suggest trying the steps mentioned here to see if you're already included in this beta.

I hope this helps!