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Forum Discussion
Reset all files as Online Only
Looks like others have had this need and idea, but submitting to reiterate the need..
Would it be possible to create a button in Preferences/sync pane that would make any and all files that are declared synced to be made online-only? That is.. I've set all my Dropbox files to online-only, then, as I do my work I need to make some files Available Offline. I try to set them to online-only as soon as I'm done, but sometimes forget as I need to get on with more work, and I'll never remember at end of day. Such an "online-only reset" button would help me greatly in keeping my local storage organized. I work at a company with a photos folder that likely numbers in the thousands and thousands, I touch many each day, but have not been able to manually reset each to online only after each one I access. Many thanks for your attention!
Welcome to our forum, Gusphoto, and thanks for your feedback!
I’ve already passed it along to our team.
Besides that, what you can try as a workaround is to right click on your local Dropbox folder directly, and select all of your files to be online-only. This way, you shouldn’t need to change their status individually.
Let me know though, if there’s something else I can help with.
- Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Welcome to our forum, Gusphoto, and thanks for your feedback!
I’ve already passed it along to our team.
Besides that, what you can try as a workaround is to right click on your local Dropbox folder directly, and select all of your files to be online-only. This way, you shouldn’t need to change their status individually.
Let me know though, if there’s something else I can help with.
Nancy!!! That totally worked!
I'm a little embarassed I didn't think of doing that first, and before sending in this in to the suggestion box. But super grateful and really quite delighted with your solution!
Now that I have set my files to online only, how do I get it to resync so that I'm saving space on the hard drive. It so full, I can't do updates for microsoft, OS, or anything else.
