Reset all files as Online Only

[Gusphoto]

Looks like others have had this need and idea, but submitting to reiterate the need..

Would it be possible to create a button in Preferences/sync pane that would make any and all files that are declared synced to be made online-only? That is.. I've set all my Dropbox files to online-only, then, as I do my work I need to make some files Available Offline. I try to set them to online-only as soon as I'm done, but sometimes forget as I need to get on with more work, and I'll never remember at end of day. Such an "online-only reset" button would help me greatly in keeping my local storage organized. I work at a company with a photos folder that likely numbers in the thousands and thousands, I touch many each day, but have not been able to manually reset each to online only after each one I access. Many thanks for your attention!

[Nancy · Accepted solution]

Welcome to our forum, @Gusphoto, and thanks for your feedback! 

I’ve already passed it along to our team. 

Besides that, what you can try as a workaround is to right click on your local Dropbox folder directly, and select all of your files to be online-only. This way, you shouldn’t need to change their status individually.

Let me know though, if there’s something else I can help with.

[Gusphoto]

Nancy!!!  That totally worked!

I'm a little embarassed I didn't think of doing that first, and before sending in this in to the suggestion box.  But super grateful and really quite delighted with your solution!

[Nancy]

Don’t worry at all about it, @Gusphoto! 

I’m glad I could be of help.

[statona]

Now that I have set my files to online only, how do I get it to resync so that I'm saving space on the hard drive.  It so full, I can't do updates for microsoft, OS, or anything else.

[Walter]

Hey @statona, did you reboot your computer at all lately or did you relaunch the desktop app since you made those changes?

If you did and this persists, can you send us a screenshot of the app's exact status and version as shown in your system tray?