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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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rogocomposer's avatar
rogocomposer
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Hi, Jay , thanks for your response.

 

There are certain programs that do not recognize online-only files in Dropbox when running Batch commands, for example. And there are also certain online applications/websites that just fail uploads or processing if a file is online-only.

 

So, yes, since the files are "visible" to the application, it would be great that if any kind of application is trying to access the file, Dropbox immediately treats this the same way as if I were trying to access it directly from the Finder (i.e. that I simply double-click the file and it automatically makes it offline and opens it)

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