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Stop Selective Sync from automatically adding new files/folders added on the web client
Hi, hopefully I'm missing something obvious but really struggling with this one.
I'm part of a Dropbox Team with 10+ TB of storage used. My personal folder has ~1.5TB. I'd like to set up selective ...
Sam Hutch wrote:
Is there a way to make that Selective Sync stick to just the one folder, and not automatically expand out?
No, that's not how the feature functions. Instead, create another folder within MyName and remove it using Selective Sync, then add your files to that new folder instead of directly to the MyName folder.
Thanks - very concise (and in hindsight, obvious!) solution. Much appreciated!
This happens even with folders added by other useers to a teams dropbox; so instead of only seeing my job, it keeps putting additional folders with other projects into my selective sync. This seems to not be limited to the web interface as it occurs following changes from the desktop apps too.
I remove these folders from the sync manually each time, however with just my team thats 8x manual removal every two-three days.
Is this really how 'Selective Sync' is meant to work? That isnt very selective. Should the functionality be that, at most, it adds new folders and files I create outside of the already syncing items?
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi p aplin vft, if an entire folder is unticked in the selective sync window, this would prevent any file or subfolder in that folder to sync to the machine.
Are the files you're getting from other users in a folder that has no checkmark at all in the selective sync window?
Hi @ Jay,
The folders I am getting are part of the tree where only one folder is selected.
I often get VFT241 (as an example) added into my selective sync, or if a new project subfolder is added. These are items I have chosen not to sync. In fact anything below the VFT237 folder can seemingly randomly be added, even in the root directory.
I accept everything new in VFT237 should be added (tick indicates the whole folder), but can not stop the others from being added.
As you can see by some of the sizes, this creates major issues on field tablets that already restricted (ie. only one or two folders in the Project) when space is not endless.
Hope that clarifies for you. Thanks for the help
- Hannah
Sorry to jump in here, p aplin vft, but can you also send us a screenshot of how your Dropbox folder appears, for comparison reasons?
