{"id":7156,"date":"2019-06-03T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2019-06-04T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:29:42","slug":"use-dropboxs-selective-sync-to-save-space-on-small-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/use-dropboxs-selective-sync-to-save-space-on-small-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox\u2019s Selective Sync to Save Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like many of our clients who use Dropbox intensively, you have a desktop Mac with a large drive and a MacBook with much less drive space. How do you prevent your large Dropbox account from overwhelming the laptop Mac\u2019s available storage? The answer is Dropbox\u2019s Selective Sync feature. On the MacBook, click the Dropbox icon in the menu bar, click your avatar in the upper-right corner, and choose Preferences. In the Preferences window, click Sync and then click the Choose Folders to Sync button. Deselect the folders you want to prevent from syncing to the MacBook and click Update. If you need to access any files in those folders from the MacBook, go to dropbox.com in your Web browser instead, or adjust your Sync preferences to bring in the needed folder.<\/p>\n

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Additional information found here: Choosing a Cloud Based File Sharing Service<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(Featured image based on a photo by <\/span>Daniele Levis Pelusi<\/span><\/a> on <\/span>Unsplash<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like many of our clients who use Dropbox intensively, you have a desktop Mac with a large drive and a MacBook with much less drive space. How do you prevent your large Dropbox account from overwhelming the laptop Mac\u2019s available storage? The answer is Dropbox\u2019s Selective Sync feature. On the MacBook, click the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,73,25,112],"tags":[1003,1004,993],"class_list":["post-7156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple-support-ct","category-icloud","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","tag-cloudstorage","tag-connecticut-mac-support","tag-dropbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}