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ReRe2
New member | Level 2
12 months ago
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How to return all files to offline?

I was having sync troubles so to save hard drive space I went to App/Preferences/Manage and selected all to be online. According to the app “…saves hard drive space. Files will still appear on your c...
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    ReRe2
    12 months ago

    Well, after 10 days of trying, I took a day off, ate Christmas dinner, and found Dropbox to be magically working fine with sync icons on my Mojave computer!  Whew. 

    Like my Dad used to say, "If you back into a buzzsaw, you'll never know what tooth took."

    i.e. Can't really call specify the solution.

ReRe2's avatar
ReRe2
New member | Level 2
12 months ago

Well, after 10 days of trying, I took a day off, ate Christmas dinner, and found Dropbox to be magically working fine with sync icons on my Mojave computer!  Whew. 

Like my Dad used to say, "If you back into a buzzsaw, you'll never know what tooth took."

i.e. Can't really call specify the solution.

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