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jamos
22 days agoNew member | Level 2
Is there a way to download all files that were previously online only?
New MacBook, and dropbox was accidentally set up as online only files and folder. I've changed this, but it only affects FUTURE files.
Now I need to go traveling (often no internet) and still...
Rich
22 days agoSuper User II
jamos wrote:
... a HUGE number of files are sat in the cloud and not on my machine. Is there an easy way to download them all?
Select a file or folder, right-click and select Make available offline. You can also select multiple files or folders at once and do this.
- jamos22 days agoNew member | Level 2
Thanks! I thought I would have to do that for each of many, many folders but if I can select multiple it will be fine. Thanks!
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