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Finding all offline folders
hi
I did a search although couldn't find this questions being asked. Sorry If I missed it!
I'm travelling and want to try and make some free space on my Macbook. Is there a way I can find all the files taking up space from Dropbox, so I can set them to make available online only?
I have cleared some space already, although some of the folders have folders nested within them so could take a fair amount of time to trawl through manually.
Thanks for reading!
miniman wrote:
Is there a way I can find all the files taking up space from Dropbox, so I can set them to make available online only?
The only way is to navigate the files and folders on your computer and look at their sync icons, which indicate whether a file or folder is online or offline. There is no list showing all offline or online files.
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- Rich
Super User II
miniman wrote:
Is there a way I can find all the files taking up space from Dropbox, so I can set them to make available online only?
The only way is to navigate the files and folders on your computer and look at their sync icons, which indicate whether a file or folder is online or offline. There is no list showing all offline or online files.
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi miniman, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
While there isn't a method to do so, as Rich suggested, if you need to make all files online-only, you could right click the Dropbox folder and then mark it as online-only.
This would free up space as any local files in the Dropbox folder would return to being online-only.
If you need any further assistance, please let me know!
You can also search in File Explorer with this in the Search Box (w/o quotes): "Attributes: 32". This will search for all files with the "A" attribute (files that are available online). Right click on the file and then click "Make online-only". Use "Attributes: 48" to search for directories available offline.
Could Dropbox please add a feature that would allow us to see all offline files in one space, without looking for sync icons? That would be a major benefit in terms of simplifying file management.
