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Toontje
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Online-only vs. Local Preferences annoyance

Desktop App V52.4.58 on MacOS 10.12.6   In my Preferences i have Sync, Smart Sync, Start as: set to Online-only. Still, for every folder i create, copy or move into my Dropbox folder i have to manu...
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    Mark
    7 years ago
    No, it wont change anything from offline to online only. Dropbox has a specific set of instructions in place that it wont itself automatically delete anything.

    The preferences menu only really works as I said to files added elsewhere (e.g. shares)
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Mark
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7 years ago
I *believe* it is only applied to files when they are added from elsewhere. If you create them on the device itself then it wont turn them Online only.

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