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rimaroa
New member | Level 1
2 years ago

How can I make files online-only on Ubuntu?

Dear all Recently, I moved from Windows 11 to Ubuntu 24.04 in my laptop. During my journey in Windows, I was always very pleased with the integration between Dropbox and my operating system, as I c...
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trombasso
New member | Level 1
12 months ago

Jaycould you say anything about if this functionality, wich is deeply missed by myself as well, is in the dev teams backlog? Is there any way to give it an upvote? 

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Nancy
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12 months ago

Hey trombasso, I’ve shared your feedback on this with our team, so that they can see your comments here and take this into account.

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    Spatterson
    New member | Level 1
    9 months ago

    We are moving more of our systems to Ubuntu and really could use the "online only" sync function as well.

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