Spotlight Privacy keeps adding my Dropbox folder even after I remove it from the list

Hello ashtontech,

Rebuilding your index may help with this behavior. We see you may have already checked out the support article that explains this process. Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support. To confirm, you followed this guidance?

"macOS Ventura or later

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Settings.
2. Click Siri & Spotlight in the sidebar, then scroll down and click Spotlight Privacy on the right.
3. Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.*
4. 
5. From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.
6. Click Done, then quit System Settings. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed."

We hope this helps. Let us know if we can assist with anything else at all. Take care.

Hey ashtontech,

Those are some great questions! At this time, we recommend that you get in touch with Apple Support team next for further assistance. To get started, click here: Apple Support

We hope everything works out!

Best regards.