How To Use Dropbox Smart Sync

Smart sync allows you to easily free up hard drive space on your computer by moving files and folders to the cloud online only.

How to use dropbox smart sync. You can activate smart sync in several ways. You can choose which files to make online only or let automatic smart sync choose for you. With smart sync you can make files and folders online only. Selective sync does the same basic thing as smart sync as it removes files from your physical hard drive moving them to online only storage within your dropbox cloud storage account. Dropbox smart sync is a feature available to customers on dropbox plus family professional and business plans.

Smart sync is a reliable way of using cloud based storage to maximize efficiency by minimizing the amount of storage used by project data on individual users pcs and laptops. To use smart sync you need to install the dropbox desktop application on your computer. Apart from smart sync another great way of freeing up space locally on a computer using our desktop app is our selective sync option or even uninstalling the app removing the dropbox folder from your computer to free up space and access your files only through the website. With smart sync you can make files and folders online only. Online only files only use a small amount of hard drive space to store information such as the file name size and thumbnail but the full contents of the files are stored securely in the dropbox cloud.

First you can change your sync settings to only keep files online for your entire dropbox folder. The smart sync settings you choose are unique to each computer and don t affect other computers you use with dropbox. However selective sync is a bit more restrictive than smart sync in terms of the amount of control you have over the process.