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Why did you take away the 'open folders in' option in the app's preferences?
I installed dropbox on a new laptop. I don't want my whole dropbox on a limited machine but I do like viewing all my online only folders right in file explorer. This was standard for Dropbox. Then su...
This is how the general preference used to look. It had that option.
THis is what it looks like now. You'll find the same complaint for mac users with "finder" instead of file manager.
Here you're talking for different thing - default way how to open a folder, not is the folder existing local or not!!! Whatever you select the folder and entire content would exists locally. They only will get opened in different ways. That's it - it doesn't mean that folders haven't existed locally and only visible in application (as you can see Dropbox doesn't like this idea 😕).
I have no idea why Preferences dialog design changed, but it doesn't affect folders (miss)residings in any way.
PS: Just keep in mind that you're using beta version. If it's unintentional, get back to stable one.
Hmm. I don't how I got a beta version. I'll uninstall and see if I can roll it back.
