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See names of online-only folders and files while offline
When I use the Android App, I can view files and folders that are not synched or saved for offline access.
On my new laptop, I don't have enough space to sync all of my dropbox files. I have...
Hey Ann W.6, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.
We do offer a feature that helps you free up hard drive space, by making your files online-only.
That means you'll only be able to see placeholders of your files in the Dropbox folder and you'll only be able to open them, if you're connected to the internet.
You can see more info about this feature here.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey Ann W.6, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.
We do offer a feature that helps you free up hard drive space, by making your files online-only.
That means you'll only be able to see placeholders of your files in the Dropbox folder and you'll only be able to open them, if you're connected to the internet.
You can see more info about this feature here.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you. If I'm understanding the help article correctly, Select Sync and Online Only are mutually exclusive. I will try changing from selective sync to Online Only and then changing folders and files that I want to have locally one by one to be available offline. I really appreciate your help and I'm very happy that Dropbox can do what I need it to do.
- Hannah
Not a problem, Ann, I was happy to help!
If you need further info or have other questions, don't hesitate to let us know.
Have a great day!
Hello.
I don't think this fully answers this question, which I now have as well - I have a new machine and have used selective sync to only make two folders available offline. At the moment, I am ONLY seeing those two folders in my Dropbox folder on my computer, none of the others, even just as placeholders. On my old computer, I saw all my Dropbox folders and only these two folders were available offline. I think this question was asking how do we get to that point - where we see all our Dropbox folders but only some of them are available offline?
Could it be that when my computer has finished syncing the other folders will appear?
I think a lot of people want to do this - to have majority offline-only but some crucial folders available offline - but the installation instructions are not clear on how this is possible. Seeing them all on our computer means we can continue to use Windows Explorer to manage our files and not have to be connected to the internet and use the clunky web interface.
