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Brian286
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1 year ago

Can you selectively sync only selected folders and leave the other folders alone?

Can you change Dropbox to Selectively sync  only selected folders  AND a switch to give an option to leave the other folders alone, still on the local PC under folder Dropbox. At present unticked...
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Rich
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1 year ago
Brian286 wrote:

... a switch to give an option to leave the other folders alone, still on the local PC under folder Dropbox.

If you mean that you want to leave a folder in the Dropbox folder and NOT have Dropbox sync it, then you can already do this by telling Dropbox to ignore the folder.

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