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
Cancel 'make available offline' downloading process.
Right now it's a huge flaw you cannot cancel the 'make available offline' download mid-process. Especially since it's so easy to accidentally click the 'cloud' icons on MacOS and suddenly have a whol...
I'm going to keep suggesting this until it happens. In the post-Ventura Dropbox update, if you accidentally click to make a folder available offline, it's impossible to stop it. I live in a rural back-of-beyond with supercrap broadband and it kills my connection. You could do this on the previous version and not being able to do this is a total pain in the arse. My second suggestion is that the UI for whether something's available off or online are goofy – sometimes you get a green tick, sometimes you get nothing (whether it's on or offline).
The post-Ventura update generally feels half-finished despite being live for a solid year or so.
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey ginodimeo - thanks for your feedback on this.
It's been logged in our system and you can let us know if you have anything else to add.
Thanks!
Can Dropbox actually act on these suggestions – the update has made Dropbox less user-friendly for Mac and I've been posting about this for a year, as have others.
