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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 "available offline" and is completely/constantly synced and the other (complete projects) is set to "online-only".

Previously when I had finished working with and adding files to the current project "available offline" folder and moved a project subfolder folder to the sister complete projects "online-only" folder, the moved subfolder would then still remain synced and available offline on that machine only (until I manually set back to online-only) but all other machines running the client would inherit the parent "online-only" and therefore wouldn't download all the contents (many gb of extra files after finishing a project!).

Now, presumably since a dropbox update, all the other machines running dropbox client will try to download the folder that has been moved to the complete projects online-only folder and therefore is filling up hard drives very quickly and causing chaos.

Is there a way to prevent this happening, and return to how dropbox previously worked, where when a folder is moved to a parent folder that is set to online-only, it keeps/inherits those preferences and doesn't start to download gbs of data?

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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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