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OliverHL
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3 years ago

Unwanted Automatic Offloading of Files in Latest Dropbox Version

I use Dropbox Business to store my video projects, which are often composed of a huge number of files. I'm having trouble understanding why the latest version of Dropbox automatically offloads my fil...
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OliverHL
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Hi Jay,

thanks for getting back to me, I didn't try to mark the entire Dropbox folder as offline because it would make me lose access to many files that I regularly use. I'm using Mac OS X (latest version) with the beta version of Dropbox 175.3.5544.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Marking files as available offline means that they would download to your machine, and would stay there. 

 

As it sounds like you're on the newer version of the Mac OS Dropbox desktop application, this is a feature in order to free up space when the drive is low on space.

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