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wwsande
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4 years ago
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List files in folder, keep them online

I want to see the files that exist in a folder, but I want to keep them only online. Details:  * WIN-10, running a non-admin Dropbox account (office policy).
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    4 years ago
    wwsande wrote:

    So I tried to install Dropbox skipping the authentication as admin ... how can I use Dropbox in this situation, showing all files in a folder, but setting some to be stored online only.

    You likely won't be able to. In order for Dropbox to add the context menu items, it needs admin access during installation. If you skipped that, there's no way for the context menu items to be added to the system, and without them, there's no way to control the online/offline status of a file.

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Rich
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4 years ago
wwsande wrote:

So I tried to install Dropbox skipping the authentication as admin ... how can I use Dropbox in this situation, showing all files in a folder, but setting some to be stored online only.

You likely won't be able to. In order for Dropbox to add the context menu items, it needs admin access during installation. If you skipped that, there's no way for the context menu items to be added to the system, and without them, there's no way to control the online/offline status of a file.

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wwsande
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Sad... Thank you for all the replies.

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