Simulate Dropbox Selective Sync with "Remove Download" in iCloud+

[RumorConsumer]

I am thinking of consolidating my file storage life and switching my terabyte of personal data from Dropbox to iCloud. Dropbox is clunky and as much as I love Maestral its just kinda extra for me. I dont need the dropbox collaborative resources and Id just keep my free dropbox account around for that stuff.

So what I am reading and playing with over here is that it seems I can copy files to iCloud Drive and then right click them and choose "remove download". This gives me a download arrow through which, if I need to, I can download the file again. Am I missing anything? Does this not seem to be a viable approach?

iCloud also seems stupidly faster than Dropbox.

 

[dizmonk]

I'm not quite sure I follow what you're asking but I totally understand your dilemma. iCloud is a lot faster than Dropbox (IMO) yet Dropbox and Google cloud both let you control more of what you want to sync. In iCloud if you sync Desktop and Documents - it's everything in that folder. You can't subselect folders from that master folder.