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Elyse g.2's avatar
Elyse g.2
New member | Level 1
11 years ago
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Dropbox is creating multiple copies of all my files and saving them to my hard drive, to the point where my entire HD storage is full. WHY? HOW CAN I STOP THIS?

I have a MacBook Air and do not keep a lot of large files (photos, music, movies, audio etc) on my hard drive. But the other day I got a message that I was out of disc storage! When I investigated i...
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  • Lifer10's avatar
    Lifer10
    9 years ago
    1. Click on the Dropbox icon in your menu bar or system tray.
    2. Click on the gear icon and then select Preferences.
    3. Click on the Sync icon at the top bar
    4. Unclick every folder marked and leave clicked the ones you want to synk on your computer. 
    5. Dropbox will erase every copy it made on your computer and will not longer create files on your hard drive.I

    I had the same problem and I just figured out how tofix it. Good Luck. 

     

    [This thread is now closed by moderators due to inactivity. If you're experiencing a similar behavior, feel free to start a new discussion in the Dropbox Community here.]

Elyse g.2's avatar
Elyse g.2
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Yes, but that is not more than 100 files. There are something like 900,000 files on my hard drive, of which nearly 300+ are duplicates of very large files. Sample path for a video file (but there are all other types of files duplicated like this) is

"Users/MyMacBookAir/Public/DropBox/Archive Photo 2/London Trip Videos/London Trip Videos from Panasonic Videocam" In that case, the duplicates all have a different "Archive Photo #" but are the exact same video.

  • Lifer10's avatar
    Lifer10
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago
    1. Click on the Dropbox icon in your menu bar or system tray.
    2. Click on the gear icon and then select Preferences.
    3. Click on the Sync icon at the top bar
    4. Unclick every folder marked and leave clicked the ones you want to synk on your computer. 
    5. Dropbox will erase every copy it made on your computer and will not longer create files on your hard drive.I

    I had the same problem and I just figured out how tofix it. Good Luck. 

     

    [This thread is now closed by moderators due to inactivity. If you're experiencing a similar behavior, feel free to start a new discussion in the Dropbox Community here.]

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