![]() I was able to view the images in Lightroom's Library. I just tried an experiment where I created a LR Classic Catalog from a folder of images in Dropbox, created Smart Previews, then selected the images in the Finder and used Dropbox's "Make Online-only" command. But as I am often traveling for extended periods of time, have been thinking about how I can access my entire library when I'm on the road. When I'm at home I keep my 8TB+ of master images on a large fast external thunderbolt drive. I'm using LR 11.5 on macOS 12.6 and Dropbox v1 which appears to be about two weeks old. I do not have the OP's problem of only seeing thumbnails in Lightroom, nor am I trying to use Lightroom on more than one computer. This is a timely thread for me as I have been wondering about using Dropbox's Online-only setting for my images as well. In your situation I would investigate alternative ways, with local masters. Having to download a master file before each edit sounds like a slow method but may not matter if not doing often. Obviously it has worked for you, but don't know what official advice about this would be. I never considered having my referenced masters on Dropbox as online only files. This is speculation as Dropbox have not been clear. There are a lot of complaints in their community, but I think most are from Business and Teams users and it is likely that the latest Dropbox statement about a fourth quarter public beta is aimed at Business and Teams. It is not clear whether there are betas for these, and Dropbox have been very unclear on their rollout policy. I have been on Dropbox betas since April and it has worked fine for me, but I don't have a Teams or Business account. Any third party apps using Dropbox to sync between devices need to be redirected to use the new location. I believe it is deleted by the installer now. When I converted to the new way in April my old Dropbox folder at ~/Dropbox remained (no longer being synced of course) and I had to delete it manually. This is a short cut to ~/Library/CloudStorage/ Dropbox. When the change happens, a new Dropbox folder is created in ~/Library/CloudStorage/ Dropbox and a new Dropbox Location appears in the Finder sidebar. Has anyone else using this system encountered this problem?Ĭlick to expand.I can't tell you much about fileproviderd, except that it is the extension provided by Apple to replace the deprecated ones used by Dropbox and Onedrive for handling on-line only files, and it requires Dropbox and Onedrive folders to be in ~/Library/CloudStorage/. Finder clearly shows that the full photo has been downloaded as the file will show it's using several MG of space instead of 0 bytes. And if I download a previously "online only" photo I still can't see it in Lightroom. I can see some of them I can't discern any reason for the difference. ![]() But for the last few days I can't see many of the thumbnails for online only photos in Lightroom. If I needed to edit an online only photo I could click on it in Finder, it would download, and I could edit with no problem. In Finder the file would show up but show 0 bytes. The ones I marked "online only" only showed a thumbnail. I could see all of my photos in Lightroom and in Finder on my Mac. ![]() This system has worked like a charm for me until very recently. I also use the "online only" sync feature to save storage space on my computers. I store my files on Dropbox and keep everything in sync so that I'm always working on the most recent version of a photo no matter which computer I'm on. I use Lightroom Classic on two different computers.
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