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Request: All files available offline by default
Moving the Mac to the new File Provider is great - very happy this is finally happening and support on the new M1 is much better. Kudos!
Feature request: Really miss the feature to have Dropbox...
Hi everyone, and thanks for your patience.
We're re-launching the option to choose the default status of synced files in the Dropbox desktop application (in the Preferences > Sync tab) for users of the newer File Provider version.
It should be available to you shortly. If you haven't received it yet, make sure to update your desktop app, and let us know if you have any questions!
As far as I can tell the setting is still broken.
Unless...
I wonder, does "new files," in this case, only refer to newly added to dropbox, not newly selected for sync?
Just to clarify because its a little confusing, there are three statuses of a file,
1) Synced-Online only - Visible in the finder but only as a placeholder, not downloaded
2) Synced-Available offline - Visible in the finder and downloaded
3) Not Synced - Only exists in the cloud (on dropbox.com), not visible in the finder
So, I'll keep certain files in the cloud but not synced because I'm not using them in a current project, but then suddenly I need them, so I go into selective sync to download it to the device. Then, since the setting is broken I have to go back to finder, find that file, right click it and click it again to it make it offline. I know that's not the end of the world, but it does bog me down often, especially because the selective sync window is one that doesn't hide like others . It would seem this setting could only exist to solve this very problem. Unless, as I said, "new" means newly created, not newly appearing on this device.
Anyone at dropbox wanna weigh in?
Thanks!
P.S.
Btw, I don't really understand Synced-Online Only, anyway. Why do people want to see files on their finder that they can't open?
I obviously get the need to designate some files in an archive state i.e. cloud-only, and others actively in use. But maybe there's a certain workflow I'm not aware of?
I actually just kind of realized the workaround and answered one of my questions.
If I sync everything except entirely irrelevant files and keep them mostly online only, then I don't need to go into the selective sync window much at all. Syncing can be handled mostly within the finder.
I guess it is kind of obvious and simple that way, I just had been doing it the other way because for a while when you added another device, it would start downloading everything on your dropbox unless you quickly unchecked all...
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