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kjmed
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

accessing online-only files from macos terminal

I have a large, shared dropbox folder that is set to "online-only", but I want to make specific files available offline. I know I can do this via right clicks in the Finder window for individual file...
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Rich
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3 years ago
kjmed wrote:

I have a large, shared dropbox folder that is set to "online-only", but I want to make specific files available offline. I know I can do this via right clicks in the Finder window for individual files, but I need to do this for many files. How can I do this via the macOS terminal?

There are no terminal/command line options for setting a file as online-only or available offline.

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    kjmed
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Well that sucks. Can I do it without individually clicking every file I need (and without making the entire root folder available offline)?

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      Jay
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      3 years ago

      Hi kjmed, currently it isn't possible to perform the action you want without manually selecting each file to mark them as available offline.

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        kjmed
        Helpful | Level 6
        3 years ago

        Are you serious? That is going to mean hours of tediously navigating folders and manually clicking specific files.

         

        This is 100% a bug. Is the dropbox team working on fixing it?

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