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Move online only files and folders within my Dropbox folder without downloading them
I would like to understand why, when moving or copying "online only" files and folders between folders in my Dropbox account, that it must download them to my computer first. Using the Dropbox deskto...
Hi,
I have the same issue, but I cannot see whether the issue in the thread was solved, and, if that was the case, how. Could you please enlighten me on how to fix this?
I think this issue actually has been resolved. I'm not sure when they made the update, but now you can move online-only folders and files around, and they don't download first.
@enivrezvous I was wrong. The problem has not been resolved. Using the Dropbox folder on my MacBook Pro, I just tried to copy a large set of website backup files from a production folder to a development folder, and before the process could start, it downloaded all the backup files to my computer. Because this was a copy procedure, now I have two copies of this huge backup set on my computer instead of them both being online-only as I had intended.
It seems like the online-only option should leave only a pointer to the online location of the actual files or folders. Moving or copying files or folders from one Dropbox folder to another should simply be moving/copying those pointers. Is this not how it works?
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