here's shitty solution to your problem: https://github.com/gburca/rofs-filtered https://github.com/gburca/rofs-filtered basically, use FUSE to create an altern

here's shitty solution to your problem: https://github.com/gburca/rofs-filtered https://github.com/gburca/rofs-filtered basically, use FUSE to create an alternative view of your filesytem, but that fuse layer will also exclude certain files matching a regex. Only the FUSE view into your files should put in the Dropbox folder and synced. This particular fuse setup is read-only which was fine for my purposes, but you might need an alternative which allows write access for Dropbox.