Can I Use Dropbox Like an External Hard Drive?

[GotThePassports]

Hi clever people,

I would like to use Dropbox like an external hard drive.

What this means is I would like to move all my videos off my iPhone, into Dropbox and then use them in Final Cut Pro.

I do NOT want the files on my computer as I only have 250gig MacBookAir. 

Is this possible WITHOUT having to constantly set files to cloud only/local/etc like other storage "solution" technologies?

I am NOT looking to use Dropbox to back up my Air, I just want to put the files directly into Dropbox instead of hard drives which I currently have to carry everywhere I go if I want to edit using videos from the past. 

Looking forward to your feedback, thank you!

[Rich]

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@GotThePassports wrote:

Is this possible WITHOUT having to constantly set files to cloud only/local/etc like other storage "solution" technologies?

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No. Any file you open will be downloaded to your computer and marked as Local, and will remain that way until you mark it as Online-only again. Without using a third-party service as a go-between, such as CloudMounter, there are no cloud storage services that I know of that operate the way you want.

[GotThePassports]

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me. I appreciate it 🙂

I guess my next step would be to determine whether there are thumbnail previews available in online only mode as that is my current issue - the placeholders don’t have previews (Sync.com) so I have to DL EVERYTHING before I can see the one or two files I’d like to use 😞

[Rich]

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@GotThePassports wrote:
I guess my next step would be to determine whether there are thumbnail previews available in online only mode

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This is a folder I have that's marked as Online-only, and all thumbnails are available. It can take time to load them while scrolling for a very large folder, but they do appear.