Policy changes to new files as online-only with File Provider on MacOS?

hi there,

If you were to visualize the above as a hierarchy, the point in time when you went into settings, selective sync, and unticked your large assets folders, is right up the top. almost nothing trumps this (there is one thing that does). You've told the dropbox app not inly do you not want to sync that folder but in fact, you don't even want to see it or acknowledge its existence on this computer. I have a colleague who uses this in the most extreme of ways which is, they have two folders at the very top right under the dropbox folder.:

One is called Sync, the other folder is called NoSync. The NoSync folder has been unticked in selective sync (actually, the next level down but that's getting technical) and from there on he rarely interferes with the dropbox app at all. when he's finished a task or project and he doesn't need it to be on his computer anymore he moves it into the NoSync folder which is a complete mirror copy in terms of folder structure but the ones in the NoSync Folder are stored online only.

I do something similar, I have a folder called superseded, also unticked in selective sync. So it's (to me) kind of a safe rubbish bin, I can move a mass of old folders and files into it and watch them disappear as the internet uploads them and then slowly they go. 

Now this is not the same as 'Do Not Sync'. This is a somewhat new command that you may find is on some versions of the dropbox app and not others, ie if you change the install location from the default to somewhere else, you wont get this functionality. This one will remove data from your dropbox and back in again (Do Not Sync & Sync to..) even though it lives inside your root dropbox folder. This is super cool, and it can be scripted. If you're interested let me know I can provide some examples.