BOX SYNC FAQ HOW TO

Check the folders you’d like saved on your hard drive.

Under Selective Sync (Windows) or Select folders to sync to this Mac (Mac), click Select folders.

Open your Dropbox desktop app preferences.

To choose which Dropbox folders to store on or remove from your computer’s hard drive: Note: You must install the Dropbox desktop application to use selective sync. Choose which folders to store on your hard drive Learn what the different sync icons means.

BOX SYNC FAQ HOW TO

Learn how to see the sync status of your folders. If you uncheck a folder, that folder and the files and folders inside it are removed from your hard drive, and are only stored on.

If you check a folder, that folder and the files and folders inside it are saved to your hard drive.

Selective sync lets you choose which folders you’d like to store on your computer’s hard drive from all of the folders you have stored in your Dropbox account. Note: The selective sync preferences you choose are unique to each computer and don’t affect the other computers you use with Dropbox. Note: You can’t remove individual files with selective sync-only folders, which includes the files and folders inside them. The folders you choose to remove from your hard drive remain stored in your account on. Selective sync is a feature in the Dropbox desktop app that allows you to remove specific Dropbox folders from your hard drive so you can save space on your computer.

Box sync faq