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Hello, i have set on my office pc some folders like "online only" - i have copied inside some files and on my office pc size of the folder is 0 (this confirms that all files are really stored in t...
hi Nancy,
you are welcome...
no no other app or program....
just seems that dropbxo first want to dowonload all files to my laptop before "listenintg" to my "online only" smartsync setting
i suppose that when i set it dropbox just stop to download files... instead it ignore my setting..
Luca
Hannah
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Dropbox Community ModeratorHey exx, how are you?
When do you experience this issue? When you reboot your computer?
Do you perhaps have an antivirus installed on your computer, that might also be looking into your Dropbox folder?
hi Hannah
no one of these scenerios
no reboot no antivirus..
i just turned on my laptop after some days and dropbox started to syncronize... but is was ignoring i set "only online" in smartsync option,.. dropbox still continued to download files and folders instead on just write name of files
regards- Jay
Hi exx, is this in all folders in random locations, or for specific folders?
to all folders i set like only online
I am having the same issue with 2 of my computers. I set the files on computer to online only and in the admin cons. but it keep downloading ALL of drop box items to each computer maxing out my computers mem.
did you ever find a solution??
Can one of the experts please explain what to do from scratch in this common situation, where a person uses Dropbox alternatively between a desktop and a lower-memory laptop, or a home desktop and an office one? I'll use my case as an example. (The documentation is confusing, to say the least.)
I have been keeping video (ipso facto, large) files out of my Dropbox folder to keep them from syncing to my laptop; I used my iMac's Desktop instead. Then I saw about Backup, which is device-specific, so no chance things will go afield. Thus are the videos (and other things) more secure now, I'm happy to report. But then I learned that you can't share items (with a URL link) from within a backed-up folder. The stated reason is, to keep you from sharing something accidentally! Nonsense. Then why allow it from anywhere? (Now, I suppose there might be people who welcome such a feature, for state secrets or such, but for them there should be a separate function. Call it Lock and Key, or The Dungeon, or something, but not Backup!) It seems to me that allowing sharing from folders within Backup would solve the problems that the original poster and other respondents have had, clean as a whistle.
Meanwhile, what do I do? Say, I have just created a video on my desktop computer, one I want to be able to share by and by. I do not want it to ever go on my Dropbox-enabled laptop. But there are many files in my Dropbox folder I do want to sync on both devices. That is to say, if I modify it on one device, the other will soon sync to that version. Please talk to me like I'm seven years old. Many thanks.
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