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DV87
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Smart Sync: Option for files I "make available offline" to remain available offline

I used to love Dropbox's Smart Sync feature, but it's gotten very frustrating since it started automatically removing files that it thinks I haven't accessed in a while. I find that it regularly purg...
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DV87
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

I hate that I'm even having to consider this kind of thing... But what if I was able to downgrade my Mac Studio to run MacOS 11.7.4 (Big Sur) and also run an older version of Dropbox on it? Would that keep me going, or would I still eventually be forced to upgrade and move my Dropbox files to my Mac's main hard drive? Thank again.

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