Option to convert 'Available' to 'Available Offline'

Dropbox makes the distinction between Available Offline (local copy might be deleted to save space) and Always Available Offline (local copy will never be deleted by Dropbox). The former has the white icon with green border and checkmark, the latter the green icon with white checkmark.

I want to be able to change files and folders from Available Offline (AO), to Always Available offline (AAO). Currently, Dropbox does not offer that possibility directly. The only way to achieve this effect is to convert the AO files/folders to Online Only (OO) first, and then select Make available offline.

This is a time-consuming process, as Dropbox removes the local copies when converting to OO, and then re-downloads all the content. Unnecessarily, I might add, since all the content had local copies to begin with.

Since the conversion from AO to AAO should be nothing more than changing some kind of flag on the files and folders, it should be a simple matter to provide a command for that purpose.

And the opposite conversion (from AAO to AO) should also be available. (Currently, for AAO content, the only option is OO as well.)

This is relevant for user who use the option to automatically save space. They want control over which files are and aren't candidates for removal of their local copies.

But this is also relevant for people who currently do not use that option. When they decide to turn that option on, they do not want to run the risk of seeing their local copies vanish into the cloud without any control over which files are thus OO'ed.

So, two additional commands in the context menu for Dropbox folders and files:

• On AO files and folders, something like Always keep this item on this device.
• On AAO files and folders, something like This item may be made OO to save space.

(On OO files and folders, the Make available offline command is already in place for the conversion to AAO.)