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AutobotsKicksAft
Explorer | Level 3
5 months ago

How can I make all my Dropbox files available offline, without manually clicking on all of them?

i want to get stuff out of DB yet it wont sync. it has a cloud icon. i manually have to click things to make it a check mark. DB was saying 'make available offline' and i did yet it still wont work. ...
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Rich
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5 months ago
AutobotsKicksAft wrote:

i want to get stuff out of DB yet it wont sync. it has a cloud icon. i manually have to click things to make it a check mark.

It is up to date, actually. The cloud icon means that those files are marked as Online-only. The files are just markers or placeholders and the actual files only exist online until you attempt to open them or mark them as Available Offline.

You can either right-click each file (or a selection of files) and select Make available offline, or you can right-click the parent folder itself and do the same, and all files in the folder will be marked as available offline and will sync back down to your computer.

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AutobotsKicksAft
Explorer | Level 3
5 months ago

I could have sworn I made the whole Dropbox ‘available offline’ 

 

ok thanks 

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