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What's the difference between solid green icon and hollow green circle icon on file or folder?
This may be a very simple question, but I've read this help page, and really don't get the difference in meaning between the solid green icon (meaning file is available offline and on device) and the...
Hi Graeme T.1,
They are not absolutely the same. The first is permanently offline (until you explicitly change this or do something that does it implicitly). The second case is something like "temporarily offline". It's usually a "online only" file that gets offline as intention to open result and will (eventually) becomes "online only" again, if left on "quiet" for some time. 😉
Hope this clarifies matter.
Ok, but you can't turn Smart Sync on for a file without first setting it online-only, can you?
That's right. The idea of Smart Sync is keeping file away (or online only) while they are not in use, so less disk space is engaged. If you try do something to Smart Sync-ed file, it syncs back (i.e. becomes offline), so you be able do what's intended. Once everything done, and Dropbox wait to avoid meaningless automated continuous sequence (online, offline, online, offline, etc.) on every single minor step, the particular file gets "online only" back (without your explicit point out). I can't still understand why would you need make a file be Smart Sync and offline 🤔 - the idea is just opposite. The temporary offline state is like a something "parasitic", but the Dropbox syncing is implemented in such a way (by now can't be avoided 🤦 - let's hope this will change at some point, when virtual block device become something obvious for Dropbox - let's hope).
