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Amy
Community Manager
2 years agoTell us how you use Dropbox!
We have shared a lot of stories about how we use Dropbox, from using Dropbox to plan a wedding to organizing and planning a project, and now we want to focus on you and how you use it! So, to start, ...
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
2 years agoHi RayM, if you don't want the folders to even appear on the local machine, you could use the selective sync feature.
Otherwise, you could mark the folders as online-only, so they will appear, but won't sync the data down to your machine unless you (or another app) chooses to access those files.
RayM
2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Jay,
Thank you. I found it prior to your post.
Ray
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