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I have many folders and files in my main computer's dropbox. I have a laptop with a small SSD so I can't allocate much space for DB. I need to use Selective Sync to pick which folders. By default all folders are checked. It would be very helpful to have a "uncheck all" checkbox in the dialog box, so I only have to check the one folder I want to share. I also want to have a way NOT to sync the files in my root folder.
Using Mac OS 10.9
I tried that and it didn't work. It still remembered the old folder structure and I still had to uncheck them all.
Still no update on this? Ridiculous. Doesn't matter how complex the backend is, this is a simple checkbox in an interface. A college student in Programming 101 could do the equivalent in one class period. I've got hundreds of directories and I don't want them synced on new computers (or fresh installs on my main one). TEDIOUS AS HELL to uncheck them all manually. It doesn't even work to use keystrokes to make it faster (such as down arrow, spacebar, down arrow, spacebar).
+1 for this feature. I honestly cannot believe that such a simple piece of functionality is missing in the sync app. In fact, we're so fed up of having to de-select over 100 folders (shared company stuff) each time we set up a new user, that we've decided to move to Box.
I'd go so far as to say that there is really no situation with a list of checkable/selectable items, on any website or in any application, that should ever be without select all/deselect all buttons. When has that ever been good UI design?
Selective Sync is a wonderful thing, but its performance remains one of the most annoying aspects of Dropbox. I suggest that ALL other enhancements or upgrades or development work of any kind cease until this particular problem is fixed. It takes FOREVER to get the folder list to load (why a file hierarchy can't be cached and populated more quickly is a bit of an enigma to me). I can build and pipe a folder hierarchy for my 47TB (yes, TB) file structure in less time than it takes Dropbox to fully show me the folder list to sync. And the lack of a "select/deselect all" capability is simply insane.
I I have about 10 machines which each share the Dropbox. I have a machine with a smallish SSD drive and was running out of space so I had to go in and uncheck a bunch recently created folders to reduce the impact of Dropbox on this computer. Would have been much faster to "uncheck all" and then check the couple of folders necessary for that particular machine's task.
That is a great reply Harold! Let us know if you win the gift card, or better yet, get a decent response from Dropbox.
Same problem here. Would be great if there was a fix...
Two years later, 574 visitors to this page, and not one sign of any intelligible response from Dropbox.
Appalling behaviour. And pathetic programming, given the prices they charge. I'll be looking for another way to share my files.
Probably putting in a tasty review at TrustPilot.com as well.
(Although I did stumble upon a piece of functionality that makes it three times less unbearable: use the down arrow to select the next folder in the list, then the space bar to check/unheck folders to be synchronised/unsynchronised.)
