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Deleting online-only files made me lose all my files, how do I prevent this in the future?
When you have files synced to online only and then you delete the files from your local device, all of the files get taken off of dropbox.com never to be recovered? I lost a s*** load of files this w...
Hey ewb123, I hope it's okay for me to jump in here as well!
You don't have to make your folders online-only, before removing them with selective sync.
You only need to make sure that they've finished syncing to your account when you add them to your Dropbox folder.
Once the files are fully synced, you can simply remove them with selective sync and they'll get removed from your local Dropbox folder, but will still be available on dropbox.com.
And, of course, they'll be available for you to sync them back to your local Dropbox folder any time.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
ewb123 wrote:
Also there should be a way once they are online to delink the placeholders ...
If that was your intent, use Selective Sync to remove folders from local drive completely.
But I first have to make them all sync via online only though, correct? And after they are in the cloud then I can use selective sync?
Can I re-selective sync them later if I want to “make available offline” (download them back to my computer)?
- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey ewb123, I hope it's okay for me to jump in here as well!
You don't have to make your folders online-only, before removing them with selective sync.
You only need to make sure that they've finished syncing to your account when you add them to your Dropbox folder.
Once the files are fully synced, you can simply remove them with selective sync and they'll get removed from your local Dropbox folder, but will still be available on dropbox.com.
And, of course, they'll be available for you to sync them back to your local Dropbox folder any time.
