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Jincheng W.'s avatar
Jincheng W.
Explorer | Level 4
1 month ago

Dropbox syncing online-only files when a third-party app tries to access a synced folder on Windows

Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (Windows 11 and Windows 10) Dropbox App Version (if using the app) (238.4.6075) Question or Issue This problem has bothered me for a while, I don't r...
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Jincheng W.'s avatar
Jincheng W.
Explorer | Level 4
1 month ago

Thanks to both of you! I understand the logic here, but what does not make complete sense is that when you simply access the folder via a Save-As command from MS office, which is one of the most common behavior when using a computer system, dropbox would start to sync the whole folder. I would think it should not be that different from using Windows explorer to access the folder, which does not trigger Dropbox syncing. 

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    1 month ago
    Jincheng W. wrote:

    but what does not make complete sense is that when you simply access the folder via a Save-As command from MS office ... dropbox would start to sync the whole folder.

    Office is likely accessing every file in an attempt to read meta data, and the files would need to be stored locally for that to happen, so Dropbox syncs them.

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