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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 agree it would be far from ideal, but I’m just trying to figure out what the boundaries are. So in that spirit… What if I were to replace my Mac with a Windows 11 PC? Do you think I’d eventually have similar problems? Is this ultimately an industry-wide change, or is it likely to remain an Apple-only limitation? 

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