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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, ...
Hello. I too am having exactly the same issue. I use a Mac and the latest version of Lightroom. My use case is to have all my photos and library locally but also to have any changes synced with the cloud (Dropbox). As Dropbox doesn't work well with the library whilst it is being modified I always pause the syncing before I load up Lightroom and then ensure Lightroom is not open before re-starting the syncing. This has worked well for some time now but my hard drive also started running out of space. I did some digging and the issue is the 'sand box area' aka 'Group Containers' - here I have over 350Gb of 'dropbox related group container files' in addition to the 400Gb of my 'actual dropbox files'.
I understand these are in a 'shared sandbox area' but requiring 75% of the file storage in addition to manage this isn't viable.
What should I do to reduce the group container storage - and please only ask me to remove dropbox/reinstall if you know this resolves this issue.
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey jameshavelock - sorry to hear you're having issues with this.
Can you please clarify your computer's exact OS version and the version of the Dropbox desktop app as shown in your menu bar?
Also, can you clarify where exactly you're noticing this hard drive discrepancy? Is it for example in the cache folder or somewhere else on your computer?
