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Taylor B.7's avatar
Taylor B.7
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Smart sync just started downloading everything to local

I have a folder with 8,000 large files. While I was working (but nowhere near the folder nor the files contained therein) I suddenly started getting notifications of "Smart Sync Download" and that al...
  • Norah's avatar
    Norah
    7 years ago

     

    Hey Taylor B, thanks for taking the time to write back in!
     
    In cases where you see files downloaded from Dropbox to your computer that were previously online-only,  and you didn’t open or change the files, this could be caused by another application. Some applications need to look at your files to work, and that makes Dropbox download the files.
     
     
    Let me know if this helps or if you have any further questions!

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