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lalessan
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3 years ago
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Offline ONLY files on Mac

I have the Dropbox extension for Mac.  I have a folder, in which I would like a few files to be ONLY available offline.  I don't want these files to be sync because they are too big.    I hav...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 years ago

    Generally, any files in the Dropbox folder will be synced to the Dropbox site, as that is the primary function for the Dropbox desktop application.

     

    However, you could try these steps to ignore certain files, so that they won't sync to the site.

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lalessan
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Hi Jay, 

 

Thank you for helping! 

 

I want exactly what you said. 

 

Best, 
Laura

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Jay
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3 years ago

Generally, any files in the Dropbox folder will be synced to the Dropbox site, as that is the primary function for the Dropbox desktop application.

 

However, you could try these steps to ignore certain files, so that they won't sync to the site.

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