These features can be activated easily in Dropbox. This process of selective sync can be conducted with the help of sync tab or by doing right clicking on the file and choosing online only from the smart sync dropdown. Smart Sync is accessing the contents from system without taking up hard drive storage, but selective sync is how users pick which files are synced. Although, they sound similar, Smart and Selective sync are different. It is also possible to enable Smart Sync for each individual files and folders which is called Selective Sync.
To activate smart sync on Dropbox, first you need open the application and change the sync setting to keep files online for all the folders as shown in the picture.įor this you need to go to the “preferences” menu which can be access though the system tray icon. Whenever you open one of the files in the application then it will sync to the file and download to the computer, and you can change or edit the file offline and as soon as you are done with the edit you need to set it manually to online only again. You will be able to see the file size but the size of file in the hard disk will be zero. The files or folders that you have selected online only will be disappeared from the hard drive, but the icon remain in the cloud software folder showing in online file and it does not take hard disk space. So, whenever you set the folder and files online only using smart sync, then you create a copy of the files and folders online that is only available to you from the cloud storage company’s website. This feature lets you clear space by allocating all the files and folders online only. Whenever user need the files, they can just double click on the file or folder, and they will be downloaded into the system from where they accessed. Smart Sync is a feature that allows all the users to see and access all the data in your cloud account and all the data that has been shared with them without storing them in a physical hard drive. In this blog we are typically talking about smart sync in Dropbox and OneDrive.
There are lot of cloud storage available in market including Dropbox, OneDrive, google drive, iCloud, google cloud storage, amazon web service etc. The host company manages all the physical environment including physical storage, servers and these provides cloud storage which keeps people and organization data accessible, available, secured, protected. So, there is modern technology called cloud computing which is model of data storage in which digital information are stored in logical pools or can be said as the cloud. In the present world, data is most valuable thing and people want to keep it secure and want to access from anywhere. Everything in the world is connected by internet. The present world is world of science, technology, and internet.
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