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kjmed
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

accessing online-only files from macos terminal

I have a large, shared dropbox folder that is set to "online-only", but I want to make specific files available offline. I know I can do this via right clicks in the Finder window for individual file...
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kjmed wrote:

I have a large, shared dropbox folder that is set to "online-only", but I want to make specific files available offline. I know I can do this via right clicks in the Finder window for individual files, but I need to do this for many files. How can I do this via the macOS terminal?

There are no terminal/command line options for setting a file as online-only or available offline.

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kjmed
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Well that sucks. Can I do it without individually clicking every file I need (and without making the entire root folder available offline)?

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    Jay
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    2 years ago

    Hi kjmed, currently it isn't possible to perform the action you want without manually selecting each file to mark them as available offline.

    • lagergren's avatar
      lagergren
      New member | Level 2
      2 years ago

      Is there a time frame for when/if you can get this fixed? Not being able to get a file synced and available, no matter how you choose to access it, and with what tool, is a huge ergonomic problem for me. Dropbox has become a lot less useful now. This may of course be a MacOS issue too, but if there is a way to get around it, configure stuff differently etc, I would be all ears. 

       

      As you state that this currently doesn't work, could you please tell me if there is a working resolution in the works, or if this is going to be the permanent state of things until Apple does something differently? 

       

      /M 

       

      • AlexGourley's avatar
        AlexGourley
        Explorer | Level 3
        2 years ago

        This has been a problem for me as well - exactly as OP described it in detail. 

    • kjmed's avatar
      kjmed
      Explorer | Level 4
      2 years ago

      Are you serious? That is going to mean hours of tediously navigating folders and manually clicking specific files.

       

      This is 100% a bug. Is the dropbox team working on fixing it?

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
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        2 years ago

        This would be the normal behavior for the Dropbox desktop application, as there hasn't ever been a command line option to mark files as online-only.

         

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