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pylorns
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4 months ago
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When will it be possible to make files online-only on Ubuntu?

With Windows 10 coming end of life many are switching to Ubuntu - whats the ETA for putting this functionality in Ubuntu dropbox app for online-only?
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  • Neal's avatar
    Neal
    2 months ago

    Hi pylorns​,

    Great question, online-only files need special support from the operating system to work safely and consistently.

    Linux doesn’t yet provide a standard way for apps to show files that live in the cloud but look local, so this feature isn’t currently available on Dropbox for Linux.

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Mark
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4 months ago
pylorns wrote:

whats the ETA for putting this functionality in Ubuntu dropbox app for online-only?

Dropbox doesnt release ETA's I'm afraid (as when they did they never, ever hit them - or even got close!). 

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