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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!
same problem here! I am considering sync.com but not sure it would solve the problem...
it's hard to believe, it seems they want us to give up and allow them to move our files online as they wish
Odd that you are having the recurring problem. I am on the latest version of MacOS, and I did have to "make available offline" 1 other time after some OS or Dropbox upgrade along the way, it has otherwise "stuck" for me and worked perfectly as Dropbox had worked for years.
Hello, after thinking I'd fixed it I am having the same issue again.
My Mac was updated with the latest Monterey version (it is a 2016 machine so it won't go further than Monterey), I had to look for Dropbox and select "Make available offline" again, and a few seconds later the error message storm started again.Really disappointed...- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey LivePaola, sorry to hear about this.
Could you send us a screenshot of the error you're getting and make sure to include the desktop app's version and status as shown in your menu bar at the moment?
Also, where's your Dropbox folder located as shown in the app's preferences under the Sync tab?
- Jay
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!
How will this option manifest? All my Macs are reporting version 175.4.5569 and I don't see any new options. I just installed Dropbox brand new on a new Mac, which seems to install the old version from scratch, download my data, then force the migration. A bit weird (rather than just installing the new file provider version from the beginning) but whatever...
At install it asks if I want to default to having files available offline, but I think that question was always there at initial install time. I said "offline" to this question, but this is before the migration to File Provider.
As of now, I don't see any new option to prefer offline access for all files, all the time (newly created locally, or on another machine.)
Will keep an eye out. Curious if you can tell us where we will see the new option?
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