A way to uncheck all folders in the Selective Sync settings

[Doug N.5]

I have many folders and files in my main computer's dropbox. I have a laptop with a small SSD so I can't allocate much space for DB. I need to use Selective Sync to pick which folders. By default all folders are checked. It would be very helpful to have a "uncheck all" checkbox in the dialog box, so I only have to check the one folder I want to share. I also want to have a way NOT to sync the files in my root folder.

Using Mac OS 10.9

[Nancy]

This idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.

Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do!

[Rob S.32]

Any updates? I just unchecked 100 folders.

[daniel s.67]

Not only that but if you have 100 folders it takes like 15 minutes to show them all.

Also someone said, just put your many folders into a few main folders.  I did that but dropbox still shows the same old folders. It did not redo the data structure.

I guess they don't know how to fix it.

[Jeff H.7]

Just went through it after setting up a new laptop and had to manually uncheck 200+ folders. I feel like I ought to get a discount every time I have to do this.

[Big P.]

I also just had to do this over and over again. We resintalled on 3 different machines and it took forever to have selective sync work correctly. At least make the mouse press work while you hold it down and scroll. This would have been a huge timesaver. 

We have been using dropbox forever and this is such a flaw.

[Kesara P.]

I've regrettably had to switch to a competitors product, which though deficient in many ways, does Selective Sync in reverse - ie: you check the folders you want when running the app on each new device. 

[Tony B.10]

It's a huge annoyance for me as well, every time I install Dropbox on a new system.  Normally, I won't complain when I'm using a free service, but this is such a small, GUI-only, feature to add.  

Please implement it?  Thanks!

[Doug N.5]

It is not a free service for me. I pay for it for myself and my company pays for it for their own use. Why Dropbox cannot implement such a seemingly simple request is beyond me.

[radres o.]

temporary by-pass could be to dump all your files in one main folder, uncheck the main folder while you are setting up a new account then check the folders you want to be synced

[daniel s.67]

I tried that and it didn't work. It still remembered the old folder structure and I still had to uncheck them all.

[Alex N.4]

Still no update on this? Ridiculous. Doesn't matter how complex the backend is, this is a simple checkbox in an interface. A college student in Programming 101 could do the equivalent in one class period. I've got hundreds of directories and I don't want them synced on new computers (or fresh installs on my main one). TEDIOUS AS HELL to uncheck them all manually. It doesn't even work to use keystrokes to make it faster (such as down arrow, spacebar, down arrow, spacebar).