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Chris R.70
New member | Level 1
11 years ago
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Desktop access without syncing.

Hello. I see it mentioned a few times previously, but am wondering if there is any active development on a way to access Dropbox files from the desktop without either syncing or using the web app...basically as a file server. 

It sounds like this would be a common use case. I need to be able to save/print files from an application to Dropbox (for Business), but don't need the overhead of keeping those files locally and syncing them. 

Does anyone know if Dropbox has at least considered this kind of functionality?

Thank you.

 

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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    9 years ago

    This thread is YEARS out of date Andrey - Dropbox themselves have been doing it now for awhile. Its called 'Smart Sync' which you can read about https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/smart-sync

     

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  • Andrey's avatar
    Andrey
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago

    Yandex have app, that working this way. So it's no true.

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    9 years ago

    This thread is YEARS out of date Andrey - Dropbox themselves have been doing it now for awhile. Its called 'Smart Sync' which you can read about https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/smart-sync

     

    [This thread is now closed by moderators due to inactivity. If you're experiencing a similar behavior, feel free to start a new discussion in the Dropbox Community here.]

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