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Moving available offline folder to online only folder sync
I have a top level folder set to "online-only" within file explorer on windows using the latest dropbox client.
Nested under this top level folder are 2 folders - 1 (current project) is set to "ava...
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the additional information there prior2that
The thing is that folders do not inherit their sync behavior when moved and this is not something that has changed recently.
Have you tried setting the desired sync status, be it available offline or online only, before moving the folder in question?
Hi Walter
I just tried that, but there's no option to set the project folder to "online-only" either before or after moving, while the dropbox client is set to pause syncing.
Once I resumed syncing I could then set the moved project folder to online-only, but then dropbox clients on other machines still started to download the moved folder, despite it now being located in a folder which had been set to online-only on those pc's.
Something must have definitely changed somewhere for all the clients to suddenly change behaviour at the same time.
Are there any admin settings on dropbox.com that I should look into that might explain this? It's a dropbox business advanced account.
- Jay
Hi prior2that, there is this option for team admins to make files local or online-only. Could you check with your admin what setting they've enabled on the team?
Additionally, there is team selective sync, which could potentially affect this, if the setting has been changed recently.
Hi Jay
I dropped a note to the admin and he said the team admin is set to online-only. I also have all my clients set to not let admin manage sync settings.
He also confirmed that he hasn't changed any settings recently - selective sync or otherwise. Plus the documentation suggests my current settings on the clients would be overriding any admin settings anyway.
I think short of waiting till I run maintenance with a clean windows installation and see how the clients behave then, it'll be a mystery.
I've also got 2 other things to resolve with dropbox on the todo list, but they'll be for another thread. (slow up/down sync speeds, and how to use a NAS as local dropbox mirror)
