
Since the cloud and is more secure than your hard drive, we recommend you use this feature and store files online only and only use the hard drive when you are working on them.It lets you automatically synchronize files and folders with Dropbox cloud storage and with your other devices. We use cookies to provide, improve, protect, and promote our. Access files from any device or platform. When you are done editing the files/folders, you can either keep them on hard drive or send them to the cloud using the online-only option. This app is an automatic file sync and backup tool. Make files and folders available offline.Online-only files and folders are saved to the hard drive when you double-click on them.Pause Dropbox sync, set the location to the same folder, and click apply/ok. Files and folders stored using the online-only option do not take up space on your computer and only save the file name, location and last updated date to your hard drive. Just rename the existing Dropbox folder to Dropbox or similar.Local files will still sync to the cloud.



The above video shows some features not used at UNC Charlotte but provides a great overview of Dropbox Smart Sync.
