Copy Dropbox's Selective Sync feature - choose what NOT to pull from the cloud
Dropbox has a feature they refer to as "Selective Sync". It allows me to select folders that have been synced to the cloud by other computers using my Dropbox account that I do NOT want to have accessible on this computer. I am trying to switch from Dropbox to Proton Drive, but the lack of this feature is giving me heartburn. On one of my machines, I have thousands of files that I want to be backed up offsite, but I don't want them to show up on all my other computers that use PD. I realize they are just placeholders and take up virtually no space on my physical drive, but setting up PD on a new computer takes forever as it tries to catalog all those available files that I'm never going to want on this machine.
There are several other request tickets here that talk about selective sync. Many of them are talking about the other direction -- selecting what on my local machine to push up to the cloud. That's a great ask, too, but totally different from this request. This is all about choosing what exists in the cloud that I want to ignore on this machine.
There are also other tickets that are either directly related or could potentially be (partially) solved by implementing it. This new ticket is intended to clarify the underlying request and to link all these others. (To other users-if you find other tickets that are related that I missed, please add via comment). Here are some that I found:
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Fabien
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I agree for 2 reasons:
- I have more storage on Proton Drive than on my Mac
- I'm using multiple devices and I don't want to sync everything, everywhere.