You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Request: All files available offline by default
Moving the Mac to the new File Provider is great - very happy this is finally happening and support on the new M1 is much better. Kudos!
Feature request: Really miss the feature to have Dropbox...
Hi everyone, and thanks for your patience.
We're re-launching the option to choose the default status of synced files in the Dropbox desktop application (in the Preferences > Sync tab) for users of the newer File Provider version.
It should be available to you shortly. If you haven't received it yet, make sure to update your desktop app, and let us know if you have any questions!
How will this option manifest? All my Macs are reporting version 175.4.5569 and I don't see any new options. I just installed Dropbox brand new on a new Mac, which seems to install the old version from scratch, download my data, then force the migration. A bit weird (rather than just installing the new file provider version from the beginning) but whatever...
At install it asks if I want to default to having files available offline, but I think that question was always there at initial install time. I said "offline" to this question, but this is before the migration to File Provider.
As of now, I don't see any new option to prefer offline access for all files, all the time (newly created locally, or on another machine.)
Will keep an eye out. Curious if you can tell us where we will see the new option?
... and small follow-up: there is a "new files default to: Available offline" is an option, but again, I think that's been there for a while.
I am unclear what that setting means for a file I create on a different Mac. At the time I create it, does it sync and become offline on this Mac? Or is that a global setting applied to all my devices (which is the desired behavior.)
What I'm hoping: I create a file on any of my devices, and once it is in Dropbox's cloud, it auto-syncs to this Mac and is downloaded. That way, I can go on a trip and use my Mac on an airplane and know that the file will be there for me.
