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donoharm
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

How do I stop Dropbox from auto moving files to online-only?

Last night, I accidentally caused my disk free space to go below 5GB. Dropbox decided to silently move all files to cloud and deleted all local copies, keeping just "links" (names a cloud+downward ar...
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wiskord
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

Same here, this is so annoying. I couldn't work on my projects, because dropbox automatically drops my files "online only" without my permission. Lost a lot of time for constantly downloading my files again and again... The worst thing is when I'm in the place without a WiFi connection...

 There is no settings to change this. How is it possible? Please do something with this!

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Walter
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7 months ago

Hey wiskord - thanks for sharing your thoughts on this with us.

I'll make sure to pass your feedback on to the team and you can let me know if you have anything else to add.  

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