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.
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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...
projectdeliverypartnersFunctionally you could maybe make the argument... maybe...
However, a simple ignore file is just a lot more convenient, especially for developer folks. Especially since we can automatically let some workflow create it if we start a new project.
The supplied script you showed may work, but I guess the files have to exist. Some of these temporary directories are very dynamic with temporary files coming and going all the time, causing a lot of sync traffic, so my gut feel that it's not really what we as a community wanted.
Still useful for more basic use cases.