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rogocomposer
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Make a certain type of file offline across your Dropbox folders

I have just had the unpleasant experience of software I've been using for years being shut down. I therefore have to go into all my files of that software and batch convert them into a format that ca...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi rogocomposer, thanks for messaging the Community.

 

Just for clarification, are you asking for a feature to mark specific file types as available offline, or online-only?

 

Or, are you asking for online-only files to be treated as normal files by other programs on your computer?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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