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title: Active and inactive scenarios
slug: active-and-inactive-scenarios
description: Understand when to activate scenarios for scheduled runs or keep them inactive for manual execution
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createdAt: 2025-02-03T13:29:15.599Z
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There are two ways you can work with scenarios in Make. Depending on how you want to use your scenario, you will either activate or inactivate it.

- **Active** scenarios run periodically according to their defined [schedule](docId:8rWFO_KROhjLePg4qHx3_).
- **Inactive** scenarios are executed once and whenever you wish to run them.

You may change between the two statuses whenever you like (active scenarios can become inactive and vice versa).

## When to activate or deactivate

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There are specific purposes for activating your scenarios as well as other reasons for making your scenarios inactive.

Using the example of connecting Instagram to Dropbox, you want to activate your scenario when you are wanting to consistently watch your account on a long-term basis. In this case, whenever you add a photo, it will automatically upload this photo to Dropbox. It will do so according to its [schedule](docId:8rWFO_KROhjLePg4qHx3_).

On the other hand, the inactive scenario is great for when you simply want to select photos from a specific time interval. Clicking the **Run once** icon in the toolbar will start a one-time execution of the scenario.

## Activating scenarios

A newly created scenario is, by default, inactive. You can activate it by clicking the **ON/OFF** button in the scenario details page.