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oonabe's avatar
oonabe
Helpful | Level 6
1 month ago
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Please add an option to fully cancel sync

Hi,   I have had this issue several times, when I'm using dropbox in windows explorer and I want to make my dropbox files only available online but by mistake I click on the option to make all file...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    1 month ago

    Hi there, oonabe, thanks for your suggestion!

    We appreciate you taking the time to post about this.

    I made sure to pass your feedback to our team, however, when this happens, can you try to right-click on those files again and then choose the "make online-only" option, to see if that helps?

    It should just cancel the download and switch the files back to online-only.

    Let me know if it works.

Danster's avatar
Danster
New member | Level 2
30 days ago

I have just had the same issue and it is very aggravating: the only work around is to make files be online only as default, an option which i discovered too late so now I am wasting 60GB of dropbox server bandwidth downloading a file to just be able to make it online only after, because of the lack of any cancel option in such instance. 

Otherwise, dropbox is just perfect ;)

Cheers!

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