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Syncing icons on the files in the Dropbox folder have changed
Hello The Finder Extension Icons indicating whether a file or folder is Online Only or Available Offline are showing up in my Finder, however, the statuses are incorrect. For instance a folder that ...
Thanks for updating us. I'm so fed up of once dependable services that get ruined by "improvements". Having to manually reset all my folders to "Make available offline" to be sure of a local copy is extremely annoying, especially since I have no assurance they won't revert to "available to be automatically made online-only" again in the future, given that Dropbox now want to foist that behavior on us by default.
Yes and it's wasteful for Dropbox's servers too - I'm now constantly taking entire projects (terabytes worth) offline and online daily because it's the only way to be sure I have the data I need locally, but also the space I need on my local drive. I'm sure I'm not the only one doing this.
As one user pointed out, the info is available (by right-clicking and seeing if "make offline" and "make online" are both options), but Dropbox is choosing to make it hard to know what's what.
The Sync.com rep is now researching cloud-to-cloud migration possibilities to help all of us move teams over to their company. I will report back.
