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exx
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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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Jay
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4 years ago

Hi Norfolk VHF, if the files are marked as online-only, then you'd see the name of the file in your Dropbox folder, but it physically wouldn't take up any space on your laptop. Local files however, would sync normally.

 

You could also use selective sync (which is device specific) to prevent entire folders to sync to your device, so if the large videos are there, you could use the desktop app to prevent them from syncing to your laptop.

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Norfolk VHF
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Both respondents are linking to documentation which, as I said at the beginning, we find inscrutable.  And if so many people are having problems, it is doubtless because they failed to implement some necessary step correctly.  We need guidance as found in one of those YouTube how-to videos! 

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