@luciano c: I know, that's not what I was clarifying.

@Guido: Ah I see. I usually just copy/move the folder somewhere, remove using selective sync, then copy back at which point Dropbox adds the grey minus. I'd say many people here have done something similar.

@Jeremy That's exactly the workaround I was suggesting :-) I think that many people here were not aware of it, possibly even the thread opener. As far as I understand also the .node_modules problem that is bothering so many people can be fixed in this way.

@Johnny W. Exactly!.  We dont want a workaround.  We want it to be solid built-in feature.

And to the Dropbox developers. I myself being a developer, am considerate of your situation.  Both in terms of the code involved, and dealing with management.

And to the dropbox management...please realize that this would make dropbox a much more marketable product.

Its a win win!  Everyone will use this feature. Market it, if you will..I wil pay for it.  Im sure many more will too.

Win win.

@Brad B.

Are you seriously? Do you think that there is not a company that makes such a cloud for a year?

@Brad B. 

I agree that a feature like this will go through (which is essentially) normal development before going live. It will need to be roadmapped, designed, and tested before we can use it. That said, people have been asking for this feature for at least 10 months, but, according to Ed., our request has only just been passed on internally. I don't think anybody is suggesting that it will be done tomorrow, but rather just feeling frustrated that the response has been lacking.

I think Eric W.'s frustration was more about the perceived general apathy towards adding this feature and us, their paying customers, than anything else.

Exactly, Guido.

To be fair, this forum is where everyone is directed to if they want to get in touch with Support or have an issue (it's actually pretty hard to get in touch in other ways -- took me a while to find another route when I wanted to get in touch directly): I didn't come here because I'm a developer, I came here because I had an issue that I Googled, and this looked like a place where I might find a solution (how wrong!).

One thing we can be sure about: This forum was created for users of Dropbox to raise and discuss issues by Dropbox themselves. They put the voting system in place as a way of helping them understand what their customers want, and what's important to them. To assume that that system is faulty, and the issues raised here do not represent their customer base is quite a leap for me. You may be right, but the available evidence (from the system Dropbox themselves created to assess such things) seems to indicate otherwise.

Either way, to learn that our request has only just been passed on to the developers now is, I think, understandably frustrating.

I would seriously like to know if this feature is likely to be roadmapped, because I going to have to look for an alternative solution that fits my needs otherwise (which I really don't want to do).

@Johnny: Oh, definitely. I am in total agreement there. Even if we knew it was in development, or being tested, that would quell any notions that I have of moving on to a competitor for my solutions as well.

I missed that earlier in the thread that someone HAS written a `.gitignore` for DropBox. 

http://konolige.com/dbignore/

It's called DBIgnore and claims to do everything we're all clamouring for. I'm going to give it a try and post back with my experiences.

EDIT: Sorry, my bad. It doesn't work :(

dbignore is currently broken

Recent versions of Dropbox do not work with dbignore. I currently lack the time fix dbignore.

@Johnny: dbignore is broken: https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore

Edit: missed your edit :)