It’s okay, I understood your query! I was suggesting Smart Sync since the files themselves aren’t downloaded and updated every single time they change.
The placeholders would remain the same, and if new files were created, new placeholders would be created too, and are tiny in size. The placeholders don’t contain any data so they never ‘sync’ edits each time a file is modified.
In essence, it would reduce bandwidth for your team since the placeholder files remain dormant. When some edits a placeholder, it downloads the file once, the edits are made and saved, and the file syncs back to the site. If the user wants, they can mark the file as online-only again.
If you did as you said (syncing, unsyncing, syncing), each time you sync, everyone else on your team would get that file synced as well.
However, with online-only Smart Sync, only that one file would sync, no other user with an online-only copy of the file would take up bandwidth with syncing.
That’s why I suggested using Smart Sync in online-only mode. Aside from that, and selective sync, there aren’t any other methods to restrict the bandwidth usage.
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