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cegeiger
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

Why are files not made online-only when moved into the Dropbox folder?

The following capabilities should have been included with the original release of this feature. Given the 1000s of online questions about this process, Dropbox needs to fix this IMMEDIATELY! 1. Fil...
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Mark
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5 months ago

Dropbox have previously said no. 2 isnt coming (now that could have changed, but, I doubt it).

 

There logic was that they don't want to risk data loss by uploading and then actively deleting files on a local device which means its not recoverable if something did go wrong. I would imagine same is the reason for number 1. 

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