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prior2that
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

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...
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Jay
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3 years ago

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.

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prior2that
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

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)

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