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Mom2Chaos
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25 days ago
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I'm trying to restore files, but it says I don't have enough space.

Hello - I had a hard drive that died. I downloaded "EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac" and was able to recover everything. However, when I hit "Recover," then pick DropBox for its destination, it s...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    25 days ago
    Mom2Chaos wrote:

    I AM trying to transfer 550 GB, but I have plenty of room

    Do you have space on your hard drive as thats where the files are trying to be saved?

    Dropbox is just a folder on your device like any other so uses up space and quota. 

    Once the files have uploaded then you can remove them locally via Online Only files, but, they must be local first so they can be sync'd. 

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Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
25 days ago
Mom2Chaos wrote:

I AM trying to transfer 550 GB, but I have plenty of room

Do you have space on your hard drive as thats where the files are trying to be saved?

Dropbox is just a folder on your device like any other so uses up space and quota. 

Once the files have uploaded then you can remove them locally via Online Only files, but, they must be local first so they can be sync'd. 

  • Mom2Chaos's avatar
    Mom2Chaos
    New member | Level 2
    23 days ago

    I do not have space on my hard drive. That may be part of the problem? I was able to transfer some files to dropbox (as space allowed). However, per some other advice, I got a different hard drive with more space, and am attempting to transfer the data to that hard drive, and then, again, as advised, will move them to dropbox and remove them locally.

    • Walter's avatar
      Walter
      Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
      23 days ago

      Thanks for the update on this and please let us know if anything else comes up in the future Mom2Chaos. 

      Cheers!

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