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Chris R.70's avatar
Chris R.70
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Desktop access without syncing.

Hello. I see it mentioned a few times previously, but am wondering if there is any active development on a way to access Dropbox files from the desktop without either syncing or using the web app...b...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    8 years ago

    This thread is YEARS out of date Andrey - Dropbox themselves have been doing it now for awhile. Its called 'Smart Sync' which you can read about https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/smart-sync

     

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Trudy M.1's avatar
Trudy M.1
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

OK so the helpful people at CloudMounter said I needed to instal FUSE 

"- install FUSE for OS X: https://osxfuse.github.io/

- enable the "Keep extended attributes" option in CloudMounter preferences." 

I have installed FUSE and now CloudMounter seems to be letting me drag and drop files to from the Desktop to Dropbox just fine :)   (I haven't figured out how to do the second part of the instructions about extended attributes but it seems to be working fine regardless).

Hope this is helpful.

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