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Paul D.4
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8 days ago

Dropbox icon with checkbox white interior remains a mystery.

Megan from the DropBox staff offered some help to an earlier post entitled "Dropbox icon  and folder status on a Mac” but despite my replies, the discussion went dead seven days ago. I still have out...
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Paul D.4
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Thanks, Jay, I will read these articles, but if I set the preference that everything should be "available off-line" why would any files given this preference setting be "online-only" - please explain

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Jay
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4 days ago

The setting in the Dropbox desktop application is only for new files added via the site or another another device. If you want to mark the entire Dropbox folder as available offline, you'll need to right click the Dropbox folder itself, and then choose the available offline/local option.

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