[joehewitt]

I don't want my personal account on the server in case it was compromised. Besides, even if you use that "dropbox exclude" command, the client will start downloading all of your files when you first link it and there's no way to tell it not to do that before you have the chance to do all of your excludes.

[pbhjpbhj]

How about run dropbox, put your network interface down whilst you set your excludes, cycle dropbox, bring network up.