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...
It wouldn't be copy and paste a .ignore file because the .ignore file will autosync to Dropbox in the same way that GitHub does. The issue is the order of operations which have to be done when setting up any new device: (1) sync with current state of your dropbox, (2) turn off sync, (3) make new folder that will be ignored, (4) issue command to ignore that folder, (5) turn on sync. By natively supporting a .ignore file, dropbox would mitigate the need for steps 2-5. Those steps currently require either manual input or running an external script, that is much more prone to user error.