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Edgemont
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

How to identify what files are "online only" and change them to local?

I hope someone can help.  I have never intentionally turned on Smart Sync.  I always want all my files and documents to be local as well as in Dropbox.  After adding a 3rd Mac, last month when I laun...
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RogerCourville's avatar
RogerCourville
New member | Level 2

Is there a way to identify and switch ALL online-only files and folders (without opening every single file everywhere)?

 

I don't normally use online-only, needed to last week for a limited period of time. Now I'd like to blanket-just turn everything back to "all synching all the time."

 

Help a brother out? 

Steve A.13's avatar
Steve A.13
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

It seems ludicrous that there isn't a way to display all of the online-only files. I have almost 200,000 files in thousands of folders stored on Dropbox. Approximately 20 folders set to online-only. However, if I want to find out which of my thousands of folders are online, I have to look at the contents of each folder? That is ridiculously impractical. 

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