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PlanetHave
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Automatically Downloading Files using the app, how to do this?

Hi foks,   I've been using Dropbox for about ten years to transfer many small documents easily between my home and work computers, both Macs.   After the recent update I've noticed that I hav...
  • Mark's avatar
    2 years ago

    Hi PlanetHave 

     

    That is a feature of 'Smart Sync'. 

     

    So to disable you need to go in to Preferences, go in to Sync and then 'New files default 'Available Offline'.

     

    However, you will need to right click on all the ones with the little cloud and set that to 'Make appear offline'. 

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