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Dieselista
Explorer | Level 3
22 days ago
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New Dropbox files sync as online-only on Windows, even though I want them to be available offline.

I am a long-time user of DropBox, having been a very early adopter.  I have used the program successfully across several computers, phones and tablets, pretty much without issues.  However, I recently moved to a new laptop, Lenovo ThinkPad, and now something is different.  Files added to DropBox on another computer, don't synch to the new laptop until I open them on the new laptop.  Any thoughts on why this may be happening would be very much appreciated.

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    9 days ago

    Hi Dieselista, just for clarification, did you also right click the Dropbox folder itself and mark it as available offline, in order for all files to get the green check marks?

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