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Emeskay
New member | Level 2
7 years ago
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Dropbox Files Take Up Hard Drive Space

My laptop keeps showing me that my Dropbox files are taking up space on my hard drive.  I am certain they are syncing and on the cloud.  How do I resolve this?  Thanks.
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    3 years ago

    Thanks for taking the time to post here, Roni5050.

     

    Just wanted to let you know that the Dropbox desktop app's job is to sync local versions of your files to your computer.

     

    This allows you to access your Dropbox files and work on them, even if you're not connected to the internet and it's our preferred method of uploading/downloading larger files.

     

    You can of course still use the website and if you'd like, you can also use our selective sync feature, which will help you remove entire folders from your Dropbox folder, but keep them on dropbox.com, to free up some of your space.

     

    I hope this helps!

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FredericVT
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Using smaller batches is not an option for me, my files are huge, hundreds of megs each. I'll try to external drive feature, thanks for pointing it to me. I have several drives and I need to backup a few files per drive, but maybe this is supported.

 

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