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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...
- Click on the Dropbox icon in your menu bar or system tray.
- Click on the gear icon and then select Preferences.
- Click on the Sync icon at the top bar
- Unclick every folder marked and leave clicked the ones you want to synk on your computer.
- 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.
I don't know if this is exactly the same issue or if it will solve the different problems, but I too had a dropbox (version 3.17.32) folder that contained multiple duplicate files (labelled xx(2) xx(3) etc. My duplicate file finder could not 'see' them, and therefore could not delete them. It came up with a list of zero duplicates.
I have now run the same exercise on my work computer (on both machines dropbox was saying it was 'synced'), and magic - it has found 1900 duplicates. No idea what has gone on. But it may pay to look at other computers that are supposed to be synced to the cloud dropbox
