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Online-only vs. Local Preferences annoyance
Desktop App V52.4.58 on MacOS 10.12.6 In my Preferences i have Sync, Smart Sync, Start as: set to Online-only. Still, for every folder i create, copy or move into my Dropbox folder i have to manu...
- No, it wont change anything from offline to online only. Dropbox has a specific set of instructions in place that it wont itself automatically delete anything.
The preferences menu only really works as I said to files added elsewhere (e.g. shares)
Hi Walt3r!
"Furthermore, the default setting is not necessarily online only by default. The app can start with the local only default but this can easily be adjusted from the preferences as described below: "
This is exactly what i am doing. I have the preferences set to Online Only. Doesn't that mean that any file i add to the Dropbox will be uploaded and if not used for a certain amount of time, they will be removed from the disk? If not, then i don't understand what the setting in Preferences is used for.
Mark
Super User II
Super User IINo, it wont change anything from offline to online only. Dropbox has a specific set of instructions in place that it wont itself automatically delete anything.
The preferences menu only really works as I said to files added elsewhere (e.g. shares)
The preferences menu only really works as I said to files added elsewhere (e.g. shares)
