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ReRe2
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9 days ago

How to return all files to offline?

I was having sync troubles so to save hard drive space I went to App/Preferences/Manage and selected all to be online. According to the app “…saves hard drive space. Files will still appear on your c...
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ReRe2
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Here's the finder - the folders all have Zero byte files. The "GoogleDrive" folders are not syncd to Google Drive, I just copied them to have some big folders to mess with.  I'm doing this to helps a couple of other people with the same problem as well, so I know I'm not alone.

 

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Nancy
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2 days ago

Thanks for the screenshot, ReRe2! I see what you mean. 

Can you right-click on one of your folders, which says 0 bytes, and send me one more screenshot of the options you see then?

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