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.
I think Smart Sync could be improved by increasing how flexible the move to online-only is. Either:
a) Set a "last modification" threshold so Smart Sync automatically moves files not modified i...
There should be an account-level setting which ensures that 'Online Only' files either stay Online Only (so local copy is removed after file is saved and closed) or are kept locally but returned to 'Online Only' after either a set amount of time (X days?) or if the Dropbox Folder reaches a pre-determined size, to restrict the amount of space on the computer used by files which can be moved to Online-Only.
This is essential for large users (3TB of Dropbox files on a 1TB iMac) but also impact smaller users with computers with just 356GB or 500GB of space as lots of the hard drive is used by the OS and Applications.
The existence of Smart Sync acknowledges the issue that having lots of files on your machine creates but without the ability to auto-revert to only only creates lots of ongoing admin to keep files 'Online-Only'.