You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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sfsdfd
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Opting out of cloud storage?
I've been a Dropbox user for about 10 years. Today, I was greeted with a demand from my Dropbox client to move all of my Dropbox synced folders from ~/Dropbox to ~/Library/CloudStorage. I've done...
- 2 years ago
Hey sfsdfd, thanks for taking the time to provide additional info on your query.
Allow me to clarify that even if you update your Dropbox application to Dropbox for macOS on File Provider, you'll still have the option to have your files available offline.
Even if you don't make the choice to initially sync them as available offline, you can still manually do so afterwards, with a simple right-click choice.
The usability of the app remains the same, with the added option to switch your files to online-only, to save up hard drive space.
However, we do appreciate your feedback on this and I'll make sure to pass it along to our team.
Let us know if you have any other questions.
asiufy
10 months agoCollaborator | Level 8
My current pain point is that you took away full functionality on MacOS *years ago* and haven't restored it yet.
For years now, I'm being forced to manually download the files I want to open in the Finder. Before, third-party apps would automatically retrieve them ("make them offline").
Prices have gone up by quite a bit, and no sign of this functionality ever coming back.
Care to share if this is functionality is ever going to be restored?
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