![]() It's far from perfect because it seems like I have to set this manually all the time. That means that this Archive is not taking up any space on my drive yet I can still access all the files in them. The entire thing is set, you can tell by this icon here, to be remote only. You can see this Archive folder is 145 GB. ![]() But Online Only will actually remove it from my local hard drive and store it remotely. I have a local copy of this folder and all its contents at all times. You can see I can switch it between Local and Online Only. Once you do that if you control click on something, like I have this Archive folder here in my Dropbox folder, and I've got Smart Sync. Now when you go to set this up it will ask you to install an extension for your Mac. What's more exciting to me is that you can now manually set a file or folder to be Offline Only. Things will automatically get off loaded and save you space as files get older and you don't use them anymore. So this isn't actually what I'm that excited about because turning this on basically it makes it like iCloud Drive but with Optimized turned on. Unfortunately you have to turn it on or off for the entire account not just a selected folder which would be nice. If you go to your Dropbox, Preferences you'll find a control for this under Sync and then Save hard drive space automatically. So the new feature introduced in Dropbox is something that's part of the Plus o rProfessional Individual Plan and it's called Dropbox Smart Sync. This can save space on your drive and allow you to archive old files that you probably don't need anymore but you don't want to completely throw away. But sometimes you want to actually take a file and get it off your drives completely, store it in the cloud, and not have a local copy. For instance, if you save a file on your desktop Mac that file will sync to your laptop Mac and take up space on both drives. As a matter of fact it may take up more space. So the problem with cloud storage is that it doesn't necessarily save space on the hard drive. ![]() ![]() Join us and get exclusive content at /patreon. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a community of supporters. Today I want to talk about a new feature in Dropbox that allows you to use Dropbox as remote storage. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. ![]()
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