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92cafe
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago
Solved

Online Only Files Reverting Back to Local

Hi Community ! I'm having an ongoing issue where any file or folder that I smart sync as 'online only' reverts back to local almost immediately. For a moment the file icon with show that it is an onl...
desktop
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    6 years ago

    Hi 92cafe, thanks for messaging today!

     

    It sounds like you could be experiencing this issue on your device.

     

    I'd recommend checking out all of those possibilities to see if they could be the cause.

     

    Let me know how it goes!

cw1062's avatar
cw1062
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Hi, I am having this same problem but on Windows.  Like Oliver F.3 said, I don't understand how to check if a 3rd party software has a browser in it?  Does anyone know how to search for this?  Thanks!

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arthuritis
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

I too am having this problem.  Did I miss something or has no one talked about this since September, or is it being discussed on a different thread?  I'd really like to have a systematic way of figuring out what third party software or browser is causing this behavior because very soon I'm going to run out of space on my hard drive when these files come storming back to local, and will have to put a lot of them on an external drive.  Thanks!

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