Let me start by saying Dropbox support for Linux is in need of some serious improvement! It took me half a day to figure out how to install it on RHEL and that's just the command line interface (don't even know if there is a GUI).
Having it now installed, I'm finding that it doesn't appear to be work properly :( I'm using the recommended python controls and when I type
dropbox exclude add test_folder
it does remove the folder from the list. However, I can not get it back. When I check the exclusion list, it says "No directories are being ignored." Therefore, I can not add it back via exclude remove. I can see when I login online, the folder still exists, but I have no way of adding it back to my local machine.
Am I missing something?
Dropbox daemon version: 124.4.4912
Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04
Following the forum over on Dropbox, a solution was posted January 2022 by Walter@Dropbox and I can confirm it worked for me. Below I'm just quoting his solution for your convenience:
Hi all - happy New Year!
I checked back internally on this and I have an update for you.
This should be fixed in our latest, stable version of the desktop app found here.
If you'd like to give our beta version a go instead, please download and install the app from this page.
Let us know how it goes!