You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Status:
Investigating
Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync
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 g...
Just adding for the benefit of others dealing with this issue, the only workaround I currently know of that _really_ works, unfortunately, is to avoid the official Dropbox clients completely and either use the Dropbox API or look for a third-party client which uses the Dropbox API and has better functionality in this regard.