[Nition]

Similarly: "Stop auto-inheriting new folders when using selective sync"[1]

Another many-page thread from 2014.

It's a big problem everywhere, but especially in business settings where there's often tons of data and anyone adding a new folder to Dropbox ends up syncing that new folder to everyone, whether they want anything to do with it or not.

For personal use it sucks when you only want to sync a few folders to e.g. a PC with a small hard drive, or if you've got a data cap.

The new "online only" option is nice but "don't auto-sync new folders" is a seemingly simple option that's been missing for years. OneDrive has it.[1]

[1] https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Stop-auto-inheriting...

[2] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-which-OneDri... "If you're choosing folders on two computers and you create a new folder on computer A that you want to sync to computer B, you'll need to go to computer B and select the new folder there."

[steindavidb]

this is actually fixed with selective sync in dropbox pro