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Ciordia9
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Analysis of Dropbox Space Usage?

Before when all your Dropbox was on your HDD you'd use local utilities to tell you what you were storing and how much drive space it was taking up. Modern dropbox with selective sync, hidden folders,...
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swa22
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

The new version of DaisyDisk can show what files are taking up your Dropbox space quota by accessing it via the Dropbox network API, i.e. without necessarily syncing the cloud with your local computer, and it will also include the files that you explicitly exclude from syncing.

 

You can simply connect Dropbox account as a virtual disk to DaisyDisk and scan it as a regular local disk, build the visual map etc. For more detail see 

https://daisydiskapp.com/manual/4/en/Topics/CloudScan.php

 

P.S. I already posted this earlier today, but I can't see my previous post, so I'm reposting just in case. 

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Ciordia9
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Hah, that's pretty cool! I'll check that out. Thanks!

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