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exx
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago
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Smart sync on all computers ??

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...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    4 years ago

    Hi exx 

     

    You need to manually set the online only option on each device. There is no way of doing this centrally. 

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exx
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

nope...

just opened laptop and dropbox started to synconize ignorig all settings

 

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Nancy
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4 years ago

Hey again, exx. 

 

Can you let me know what’s the current syncing status of your desktop app? If it’s not up to date, but still syncing, I’d like you to let it finish syncing first, and then try to make some of your files online-only once more, as a test. 

 

Does the setting work now or does the app download your files again automatically?

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