Re: Dropbox

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> writes:

Can you see that file in a directory on the phone with a file manager?
If not, it's as I said, Dropbox is not syncing. From the rest of your
post it seems we have a very different view of what sync means. To me it
means all files in all Dropbox directories copied to all synced systems,
which is what Dropbox does on Windows and Linux PCs at least.

Not sure how I could open a file shown in the Dropbox client on Android
to let me edit it if it weren't downloaded.  How do you open a file on a
local device that is still in the cloud?  I wasn't using a web app to
edit the file.  I wasn't taken to some web page to then download or open
the file.

Is your answer to my question then no? Can you open a file in the
Dropbox client on Android if you put your phone into Airplane mode? If
not, Dropbox on Android doesn't sync.

Of course the Dropbox client can download and open any file on demand
from Dropbox servers, it doesn't need an external application for
that. But that's not what Dropbox does on PCs, it syncs all files into
local copies.