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Amy
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11 months ago

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Jay
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Hi RayM, if you don't want the folders to even appear on the local machine, you could use the selective sync feature.

 

Otherwise, you could mark the folders as online-only, so they will appear, but won't sync the data down to your machine unless you (or another app) chooses to access those files. 

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RayM
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11 months ago

Jay,

 

Thank you.  I found it prior to your post.

 

Ray

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