With Windows 10 coming end of life many are switching to Ubuntu - whats the ETA for putting this functionality in Ubuntu dropbox app for online-only?
Hi @pylorns,
Great question, online-only files need special support from the operating system to work safely and consistently.
Linux doesn’t yet provide a standard way for apps to show files that live in the cloud but look local, so this feature isn’t currently available on Dropbox for Linux.
Hey @pylorns, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.
Since the post you replied to was a bit old, I moved your question to a thread of its own.
Now, while there's no update we can provide regarding your question, and since making online-only files on Linux OS isn't possible, you can use selective sync instead.
Thank you for posting on our Community about this!
pylorns wrote: whats the ETA for putting this functionality in Ubuntu dropbox app for online-only?
whats the ETA for putting this functionality in Ubuntu dropbox app for online-only?
Dropbox doesnt release ETA's I'm afraid (as when they did they never, ever hit them - or even got close!).
Can you elaborate why its not possible on Linux OS (Ubuntu for instance)?
