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cfarley137
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Dropbox desktop on Mac corrupts files -- downloading from web is fine

I've got a Mac with a small SSD -- smaller than my Dropbox account. So I use "Selective Sync" to keep most of my large photo library in the cloud. When I need some files, I enable "Selective Sync" an...
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    akariv
    6 years ago

    In case anyone is interested in the solution for this problem -

     

    Files were erroneously marked as 'online only', a smart-sync feature (even though smart-sync wasn't even enabled).

    I had to enable it and mark the files as 'local' (via the context menu), which solved the problem.

     

    hth

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