As far as I know on iOS, Dropbox will only show you the directory’s contents on Dropbox’s servers. The file is not on your iOS device until you actually choose to view it at which point it’s downloaded. You can keep a document on your device by starring it (or make it a favourite or something) and then it will stay. It maybe that you had just happened to have downloaded those documents onto your iPad but they did not have to be junked to make room for something else.
I hope that helps. Stephen “… leaving aside the gigantic effrontery of any Westminster politician lecturing Scotland on fiscal rectitude when the UK’s deficit is around £100 billion and its accumulated national debt stands at more than £1.5 trillion” ~ Nicola Sturgeon, SNP Leader, April 2015 > On 12 May 2015, at 06:44, Andrew Tett <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have an iPad (16GB) and an iPhone 4S (16GB) with Dropbox installed. They > seem to operate Dropbox differently: > > With the iPad, Dropbox is useable much as it is in a Computer. All the > documents SEEM to be available from the iPad internal memory. With the > iPhone, they all have to be accessed from the cloud, as it were. This is not > so convenient when out and about, mainly. > > I can find no way to change the behaviour so that the 'phone's internal > memory can be used to store files just as it would on my computer. > > Am I right, or is there something that I can do? > > Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
