Desktop access without syncing.

[Chris R.70]

Hello. I see it mentioned a few times previously, but am wondering if there is any active development on a way to access Dropbox files from the desktop without either syncing or using the web app...basically as a file server. 

It sounds like this would be a common use case. I need to be able to save/print files from an application to Dropbox (for Business), but don't need the overhead of keeping those files locally and syncing them. 

Does anyone know if Dropbox has at least considered this kind of functionality?

Thank you.

[Trudy M.1]

OK so the helpful people at CloudMounter said I needed to instal FUSE 

"- install FUSE for OS X: https://osxfuse.github.io/

- enable the "Keep extended attributes" option in CloudMounter preferences." 

I have installed FUSE and now CloudMounter seems to be letting me drag and drop files to from the Desktop to Dropbox just fine 🙂   (I haven't figured out how to do the second part of the instructions about extended attributes but it seems to be working fine regardless).

Hope this is helpful.

[Andrey]

Yandex have app, that working this way. So it's no true.

[Mark · Accepted solution]

This thread is YEARS out of date Andrey - Dropbox themselves have been doing it now for awhile. Its called 'Smart Sync' which you can read about https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/smart-sync

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