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The venerable "missing smart sync icons" problem.
Menu options for local vs OnlineOnly are active and work. Just can't tell looking at any file/folder in Finder whether it is local or online only.
What am I missing?
OneDrive does this, no problem. Just about at my ropes end with DB.
Also, to be clear, in the Dropbox Preferences window (accessed from the Menubar icon>Preferences, in the General tab, I am not seeing anything related to Smart Sync.
Mine looks like this:
Hey @MLondon, this is a thread that's a bit old, so some info might not be relevant any more.
Is the Dropbox application working fine otherwise? Like, if you add a file to your Dropbox folder, does it sync to your account online?
Can you also send me a screenshot of what you see when you right-click on a file or folder in your Dropbox folder?
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