Still, what could be causing this? Why does Smart Sync keep trying to sync and download things set to online only and is there a fix if it gets stuck in that syncing loop again? Okay, nothing is happening yet (except the endless indexing). Looking in the Dropbox folder, I see individual files set to online only (including those zip files) are marked with an X but none of the folders are, which puzzles me. I exited Dropbox and restarted my computer this time, to boot. This laptop has an SSD and the files are small so it should have been almost instantaneous. It has 32 files in it and Dropbox kept saying, "Syncing 32 files.31 files.32 files.31 files.32 files." like it kept starting over and over and over. As soon as I did this, it started trying to download/sync those zip files again! I again set them to online only, exited and restarted Dropbox.but then Dropbox got stuck in a cycle of syncing, syncing, syncing a different, online-only folder. I set them to online only again then, since my computer has been indexing files for over a week now, decided to exclude my online only folders from being indexed, thinking maybe that was the cause of all the indexing. Today it randomly started trying to download/sync a few zip files I set to online only. It seems as though the only safe way to keep files from my drive is the old fashioned selective sync from preferences, but this is a backward way of working, especially when I want to have the folder show up on my local drive so I can bring files into it, but I may want those files to only live online.I had this same issue with a particular folder when I first set up my new Windows 10 laptop, but closing and restarting Dropbox seemed to fix it. This feature is supposed to "save hard disk space", which it does seem to do temporarily before it just starts downoading things again. However Dropbox keeps randomly re-downloading the files to my system even after telling it that I want the files to be online only.
I have a number of files I've brought over to Dropbox using the finder on my Mac, that I have then marked as online only, in hopes that it would upload the files and then remove them from my local storage, which is limited. I am growing increasingly frustrated with this so called "smart sync" feature Dropbox has recently introduced (or rather forced upon me).
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