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GeneratorCreative
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2 years ago
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Stop selective sync from auto syncing newly added files by default

Hi all - I am the creative director at a small creative studio and Dropbox's selective sync feature is a great way for our team to have the seamless experience of working with our files locally, whet...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    GeneratorCreative wrote:

    If this is truly selective sync, why is this the default functionally? Shouldn't there at least be a way to switch it off in preferences? Or am I missing something?

    You're not missing anything. There's no option to prevent new folders from syncing down to a computer. A folder cannot be unchecked in Selective Sync until it has synced to the computer.

     

    However, if you're on a PC, you can specify that new folders sync down to the computer marked as Online-only, so they don't take up any disk space. That's the only option there is.

     

     

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vladgasan
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7 months ago

The Online-only by default functionality is also available to Mac users.

 

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