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Can't sync due to low disk space
Very annoying. Dropbox is giving me the 'can't sync due to low disk space' message - this is on a new system with a 1TB drive with 260G available. We have a 50G biz account, and we're using about 4% of it. ATM, this is the only machine attached to it.
Please fix this, guys. OneDrive/MS doesn't need any more money.
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- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey TheAtanaGroup - welcome to the Dropbox Community!
Sorry to hear about this - let's have a look into it now.
The low disk space error you see is likely coming from your computer's OS and is referring to your local hard disk space. If you see that you are still well below your quota on the web, it is probably because the hard drive you store your Dropbox Folder is out of free space and won't be able to accommodate all of your data. Since files stored in your Dropbox are also stored on your computer, your hard drive must have enough space to store the files that are in your account.
Also note that you can alsways use our Selective Sync feature which comes in handy in situations where you have files which you would like to keep but don't need them taking up space on your hard drive.
Last but not least, have you considered using our Smart Sync feature which will enable you to set files to be ‘online-only’? In this way, the files will be removed from your computer and will take up practically no space.
I hope this helps and please keep me posted. If this problem persists, feel free to include a screenshot of the exact error you get to have a better look or even better log a ticket with our team and let me know a ticket ID so I can follow up with more info about this internally.
Same issue. I have way more space on my machine than in dropbox and it keeps dropping out with low disk space warnings with over 90Gb freed and trying to sync a 1mb file.
NorahDropbox Staff
- Sanchez
Did you even read what I posted? Re: "The low disk space error you see is likely coming from your computer's OS and is referring to your local hard disk space." -- This is incorrect. But make sure you guys vote it up as a solution, at least until you get it fixed.
- Mark
Super User II
It is accurate and correct information TheAtanaGroup, but, if thats NOT happening for you as has been requested can you log a ticket and post screenshots.
Remember as well that if your Dropbox folder is not on the main drive (i.e. C usually) it could be one of the two drives thats causing the issue. It was not accurate for me and it would appear for the earlier poster. There is a lot of space on my chance with a single drive and Dropbox keeps complaining. It would appear that the issue is realted to either the Dropbox cache or the Drive Cache and Dropboxes inability to measure this accurately after a recent update leading to a false warning about low disk space.
- MarkHence a request to log a ticket if not already done so and post screengrabs. Oh and version numbers help so things can be logged together :)
All I can do is respond in the context of what I posted - it's certainly not accurate on my box, when I have nearly 500 gig available at this point and still get the error on a DB subscription that should only allow us 50G of storage. You can post whatever you like - the fact remains that DB on my box is getting it wrong. I suspect there's an issue in the local executable where the API call to GetDiskFreeSpaceEx is throwing an exception, and there's a handler that's just catching it and returning a fail. Unless you're doing something like using WMI or something to allocate disk space (any of that 'SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskQuota' stuff is asking for trouble in a distributed production environment)
Regardless, your post is incorrect, at least for my box and configuration. There's plenty of disk space on this box.
- Sanchez
