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Two-way automatic synchronization should be an essential function of the official app.

This is how Dropbox works on computers but not on Android. "New files in your cloud account are automatically downloaded onto your device. The only workaround I found to this problem is using third party app that syncs files with your Dropbox repository, such as Dropsync or FolderSync, which were explicitly meant for that : I personally would like to edit note files on my computer and my phone and to get them synced by Db, but there seems to be no way to reach and edit locally stored (note) files with my note-taking app. The only way to use these files on your device apart from through the Db app is to "export" them after they were made "available offline" (so basically to properly download them locally), and it is thus impossible to do what Dropbox is meant to do in the first place : read and write synced files. They used to be in sdcard>Android>data>files, but the new "available offline" option stores them in the cache of the Db app, which other apps cannot access (you wouldn't be able to locate them with Files, for example), to ensure their safety, I would guess. As you may know, Dropbox doesn't sync files on Android any more as of last year or so (see this, for example).