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
change online only to local sync
A suggested solution for changing online only files to local cync was to "sync your files locally (on the top folder level)" . This is not very helpful, because the problem is how to sync files loca...
Thanks for the update, Tiina!
Selective sync is a feature that helps remove entire folders from your Dropbox folder, to save up hard drive space. Is it possible that you used it before to remove these folders?
If that's the case, you can use the steps in the hyperlinked article, to add them back.
Let me know if that helped!Mod note: updated link in post [last update 2023]
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the update, Tiina!
Selective sync is a feature that helps remove entire folders from your Dropbox folder, to save up hard drive space. Is it possible that you used it before to remove these folders?
If that's the case, you can use the steps in the hyperlinked article, to add them back.
Let me know if that helped!
Mod note: updated link in post [last update 2023]
Thanks, I think I finally found the complete folder structure and could check in some selected sync activity! 🙂
Dec 2024 Quick update terminology: To change from online only you right click and select "Make available offline" and NOT "local"
