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Danudod
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

Dropbox files consuming hard drive space even after switching files to online-only

Hello All, My Dropbox is consuming a lot of space on my local drive because the files are available offline. Recently, I marked all folders as "Online-Only," and I initially recovered about 40 GB o...
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Danudod
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

There are few other folders as well. The total shows as 349.6 GB

All the folders except one has cloud icon since I made them online only. Appreciate any insight on this. 

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Hannah
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8 months ago

Thanks for the additional info, Danudod.

Can you let us know what your computer's OS version is and what the sync status and version of your Dropbox app is?

You can see the latter by hovering over the Dropbox icon in your system tray.

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