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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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Jay
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3 years ago

Technically, since only 12.3 or above would be required to use the new File Provider version of the Dropbox desktop application, it could work if you do it that way. 

 

Of course, we would never recommend a user purposely downgrade their OS drastically in order to make these changes. There could be a lot of issues when doing such a massive change, such as app compatibility, unrelated to Dropbox and so on. Personally, I couldn't recommend going this far to make it work. 

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