Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back.

At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. They remain on the Dropbox web site and other computers.Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. Drag the Dropbox folder to the trash and empty the Click the Go menu at the top of the screenĪnd choose Home. If you want to remove the files from this computer,Ĭlick the Finder (Desktop).Files remain on the computer but will no longer sync with the web or other computers.Click the Dropbox icon, then the control gear and Quit Dropbox.Confirm you’re sure that you want to unlink. Click Account and Unlink This Computer.

Choose Preferences, then General and uncheck Start Dropbox on system startup.

Click the Dropbox icon in your menu bar.

DO NOT remove files from the Dropbox folder until you’ve unlinked it or you’ll remove them everywhere – from this computer, the web, and all other synced computers. If you want to stop syncing all files with a computer you need to disable sync. All files remain on your Dropbox account and other devices. Items are downloaded or removed from your computer. A – icon means some files within the folder are You can switch to Advanced View to see folders

Next to Selective Sync, choose Change Settings.

No icon? Download and sign into Dropbox first. Still available on the Dropbox web site and other computers. Selective Sync helps you choose which foldersĪre copied to your Dropbox on a particular Mac. Sometimes your Dropbox can get so big it can’t download all theįiles to one of your Macs. This includesįiles others have shared with you. Normally, allįiles are downloaded and saved in the Dropbox folder. Dropbox makes it easy to share files on all the computers &ĭevices you use, as well as share files with other people.

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