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pslack
New member | Level 2
7 years ago
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How to stop syncing an individual file

My dropbox was (unbeknownst to me) not syncing for the past week. So work I was doing on some files was not being saved to the team folder. I just got my syncing working again, but meanwhile the team...
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jahmk
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Is this still only on the beta version? I really need to skip some large files to upload, they only need for offline works, but I need to keep them together. 

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    jahmk
    Explorer | Level 4
    4 years ago

    Thanks, I've managed to do it, but looking for an option on dropbox could be easier. 

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      Rich
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      4 years ago
      jahmk wrote:

      Thanks, I've managed to do it, but looking for an option on dropbox could be easier. 

      The method in the help article is the only way to manage this feature.

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