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bartmcleod
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Folder switched to online only without my permission

My top level Dropbox folder has switched to online-only without my permission. I took care not to enable this, as I want Dropbox as a backup, not as an extra storage. I want immediate access to my fi...
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bartmcleod
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Hi Walter,

I am on Sequoia 15.0 since a few days.

Status of the Dropbox Icon is Syncing (flash symbol).

I see only my own activity in the events log, nothing special.

Even some of my edited files are gone now. A lot of work went into those.

I do have a back-up of the raw files outside DropBox.

I'm so angry I think I'm going insane.

Cheers, Bart

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bartmcleod
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Oh, and fyi I marked my root DropBox folder as make available offline, as I want control over my files, so it has to sync everything now.

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    bartmcleod
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    I have been able to copy the edited photoshop files that were not yet "online only" to a local folder. Now I'm going over those that are "online only" (with a green check mark and a happy cloud symbol that's laughing in my face with its optimistic not working down pointing arrow - yes it got me down) to display them in the browser. I download them from there one by one and then copy them to the "Saved from dropbox folder"

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