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...
Let it go. The ship has sailed.
Comparing Dropbox to GitHub is apples and oranges. There’s similarities, but there’s inherent differences. Whether or not Dropbox could have built something to solve this syncing dilemma, who knows. As others have said, it’s not that the hacks don’t work, in controlled environments, it’s that they always have tradeoffs. They never fully solve the problem, not in a way that’s truly usable.
And it’s ok. Well, it’s not really, but it’s ok to let it go. Until it’s solved by Dropbox itself, which I kinda feel isn’t necessary even a Dropbox issue, it’s a lost cause.
Seeing this thread has now reached 100 pages, I thought I’d login to commemorate where we started, where we’ve been, where we are, and all the progress we hadn’t made.
Keep fighting the good fight. Or don’t.