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SpencerEditor
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10 months ago

Dropbox is filling my Mac's hard drive with clone files.

Hi! I have a 1tb hard drive, and just added 600gb of files to a local folder that dropbox is set to sync to.  Since then, Dropbox has created an extra 500gb worth of "clone files" in a root mount, ...
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Rich
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10 months ago
SpencerEditor wrote:

Dropbox has created an extra 500gb worth of "clone files" in a root mount, group containers folder.

Not sure what you mean by clone files, or the location you're referring to. Can you provide any screenshots showing the issue? Be sure to mask any private information.

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    SpencerEditor
    Helpful | Level 5
    10 months ago

    Sure, here is the screenshot. As you can see, my actual files are in the "cloud storage" folder. Yet there is another "group containers" structure, where a "file clones" folder is steadily increasing, even now.

    I'm assuming they're temporary files (as my files are still being synced) but I'm just not sure why it's necessary and what I can do about it.

     

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