Your files are perfectly safe in Dropbox. So really we shouldn't count on our files being safe in dropbox because it's not really a backup solution. If all your after is a file backup service, use Backblaze, Carbonite, etc., as they're designed for backups. It is a file synchronization server that has some backup-like functionality. It APPEARS as though the files are there, so you can easily open them, but they are online-only and not taking up disk space (aside from a few bytes for the marker).Īlso, dropbox isn't a backup solution? It's a sync solution?Ĭorrect. There's no need to delete the local files because the files are already removed from your local drive by Dropbox, and a marker is left behind. You set a file or folder as Online-only, and you're done. You try and delete your local folder and it wants to delete your online folder - dumb. Let me know if anyone can properly answer this question on how to you turn on smart sync and it seems like nothing changed. Can you restore an entire folder at once? Or do you need to restore file by file. But if you're dealing with a folder that has TONS of files, it's really not an attractive proposition with the unknown of what it will take to restore the underlying files on. I suppose you could delete the local folder, then restore it in cloud Dropbox and it shouldn't re-sync locally.
So you end up with no clear way to remove those local files. Yet it does roll back, and prompts you that it will do this when deleting or moving the local folder/file. It's a pretty poorly designed feature, because once smartsync is enabled on a folder to be cloud only, deleting that folder SHOULD NOT roll back to the cloud, per the setting. The question, again is: after enabling smartsync where the selected folder is cloud only (meaning, it will not sync between cloud & local), how does one delete those files from local without it rolling back to cloud. You didn't actually answer the OP's question.
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