
SSL/TSL creates a secure tunnel protected by 128-bit or higher Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.Dropbox uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) to protect data in transit between Dropbox apps and our servers.Dropbox files at rest are encrypted using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).To keep your files safe, Dropbox is designed with multiple layers of protection, distributed across a scalable, secure infrastructure. These files and folders will still be visible from your computer, but are stored in your Dropbox account online.īased on how you use certain files and folders, they can automatically be set to online-only.Dropbox is a home for all your most valuable files. Making your files and folders online-only also helps save hard drive space. Check the folders you’d like saved on your hard drive.Under Selective Sync, click Choose folders (Mac) or Selective Sync… (Windows).Open your Dropbox desktop app preferences.

To choose which Dropbox folders to store on or remove from your computer’s hard drive: Note: You must install the Dropbox desktop application to use selective sync. Choose which folders to store on your hard drive

Learn what the different sync icons means. Learn how to see the sync status of your folders. If you uncheck a folder, that folder and the files and folders inside it, are removed from your hard drive, and are only stored on. If you check a folder, that folder and the files and folders inside it, are saved to your hard drive. Selective sync lets you choose which folders you’d like to store on your computer’s hard drive from all of the folders you have stored in your Dropbox account. Note: The selective sync preferences you choose are unique to each computer and don’t affect the other computers you use with Dropbox. Note: You can’t remove individual files with selective sync-only folders, which includes the files and folders inside them. The folders you choose to remove from your hard drive remain stored in your account on. Selective sync is a feature in the Dropbox desktop app that allows you remove specific Dropbox folders from your hard drive so you can save space on your computer.
