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Dave_Rado's avatar
Dave_Rado
Collaborator | Level 10
5 months ago

No option to "make available offline" in Dropbox for Windows new version.

I had to uninstall and reinstall Dropbox for Windows desktop today, and now the Status column of all my files and folders has changed - previously they were all available offline but now they all hav...
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Dave_Rado's avatar
Dave_Rado
Collaborator | Level 10
5 months ago

Also, why can't I edit my original post? It's very frustrating not to be able to fix typos. I can edit this reply but I can't see any way to edit my original post.

Also, under Preferences > "Default sync state for new files", "Available offline" is selected. But all my existing files are online only and I can't see any way to change that.

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