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Windows quick search access to Dropbox files in the cloud
Hi so I´ve got a temporary laptop while my current one is being fixed. Loaded the DB app and told it to leave all my files in the cloud. The app did but a Dropbox icon in Windows Explorer on my new ...
Hi- Yes I´m very familiar with Selective Sync but only in the case where the files started out on my hard drive and then as the drive got full I used that feature. In this case, all the files are on dropbox.com but I still want to access them from Windows explorer and as well when I do "save as" from MS office apps.
The issue here is that when I go to "Sync Settings" on my preferences, I see a list of all of my files and it says "Selected Folders will live on this computer. Unselected folders will appear only on dropbp.com"
Well I don´t want any of the files to "live on this computer" for the reasons previously stated. So I checked off none of my folder in that list.
Further down there is a choice for "on-line only" but that´s only for new files. There´s no "on-line" choice for existing files that are on dropbox.com in this "Sync" choices under Preferences and same for when I install- I get the same list and the same message about files "living on this computer" which isn´t what I want.
I tried draggin the screen shot and nothing happens. When I click on camera I get a form with several blanks to fill out and the first is "source" and I tried to past a link to the spreadsheet and the form ignored it. Whatever you are using for this communication is lacking a proper attachement function.
Can you give me an email address to send the screen shot to?
Thanks,
-Marc
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHave you by any chance tried another web browser to attach a screenshot in your reply, Marc?
As for getting in contact with our support team via email, you can reach out to them via this page.
Hi- great suggestion and I just pasted it in. So the highlight section is the thing I referred to in my last message- I don´t want the files to "live" on my Laptop
- Walter
Have you tried syncing a sample folder from this window to see how it goes, Marc?
Hi-sorry don´t understand- what "sample folder" are you speaking of?
- Walter
Any of the folders shown on your screenshot, Marc. A small one would do the trick to test things out.
Hi and thanks- and ok I did that with my "screenshots" and it has the expected behavior: I can see it now in my Wondows Explorer list of file but it has the green check mark which means its now living on my laptop which is what I didn´t want. Of course I can right click on it and choose the Dropbox option to "make on-line" only. That´s fine for a single folder but I don´t want to have to manuall do that for each and ever folder I have- that would be very time consuming .
It seems that´s the only way though? The install procedue does not allow me to have both the files living on dropbox.com and also appear in Windows explorer without doing this manual process for each one after the install take a tone of time to put all my folders on the harddrive??
