Additionally, the files set to online-only will be removed from the suggested files list in the Manage hard drive space tool. Check the boxes next to the files that you’d like to make online-only.Ī confirmation message will appear indicating the amount of hard drive storage you’ve freed up.You can view and sort files by size and the date they were last modified.Click Manage hard drive space to open the tool.Click your avatar (profile picture or initials).Click the Dropbox icon in your taskbar (Windows) or menu bar (Mac).To make files online-only using the Manage hard drive space tool: If you’d like to store the file or folder on your hard drive instead, click Make available offline. ![]() Navigate to the file or folder you’d like to set to online-only.Any files that aren't in the account or any files that you deleted likely cannot be recovered.To manually change files to online-only in the Dropbox desktop app: If you resubscribed to the same account you had previously, then you'll still have access to any files that were in the account, excluding those you deleted. Any files that aren't in the account or any files that you deleted likely cannot be wrote: This means you no longer have the original files just the empty placeholders. To me it sounds like you had files marked as Online-only so they didn't actually exist on your computer, and you canceled your subscription and deleted the files from your account without first marking them as Available Offline. Purchasing a new license won't make these files available again if you previously deleted them from your account.ĭoes this sound as a dropbox issue or is it something else? And if so, is there a way to solve this? Basically, you would have deleted the original file in Dropbox before it was downloaded back to your computer. If you canceled Dropbox and deleted the files from your account before you first marked all your files as Available Offline so they could download, then any file that was previously Online-only no longer exists on your computer. On your end you just continue to use your files as you always have. When you access an Online-only file, Dropbox downloads it back to your computer and marks is as Available. This allows you to see the file or folder on your drive, but it only exists in your account online it's Online-only. Dropbox has a feature that allows you to remove a file or folder from your computer while leaving a placeholder in its place. It's not a settings or permissions issue. Restoring my action by CTRL + Z, showed me a message that the file 'could not be found'.ĭoes this sound as a dropbox issue or is it something else?Īnd if so, is there a way to solve wrote: The file disappeared from the 'source' folder (online only) but never showed up in my local dropbox folder. ![]() I started with copying 1 text file from the online only folder to the local dropbox folder. To make it work again, I bought a pro license today, to see if copying to dropbox is/was possible to make the files in this folder accessible again. I canceled the pro license about 1,5 or 2 year ago, deleted lot of folders online and I do not use dropbox since then. So I hope I am right that this has something to do with a Dropbox settings/permissions? The message when opening a file in the folder is 'this is a online only folder, please copy it to dropbox'. ![]() I remembered that this particular folder used to be in my dropbox account/folder. My first thought was that this is a virus or permission thing, but nothing worked, settings are fine. Opening files in that folder is not possible. On my notebook there is a folder which I cannot copy to another folder, drive etc.
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