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Exclude files from your dropbox easily using dropboxignore

The “Problem” A common issue/request about Dropbox was about ignoring files without using Selective Sync. Dropbox recently introduced the ability to ignore specific files or folders. Although the significance of the new feature, many users [ 1, 2 , 3, 4] have expressed the importance of ignoring files from Dropbox using Glob just like .gitignore. For various reasons Dropbox doesn’t seem to have the will to implement such a feature :/ The walk-around As a result, I decided to implement dropboxignore which is a simple shell script that ignores files from Dropbox based on glob patterns. Additionally, existing .gitignore files can be used to automatically generate .dropboxignore files. ...