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tholmes33
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2 months ago

Dropbox fills up my hard drive on Mac OS

Dropbox Plan Business Device Mac Studio Operating System/Browser (if using the web) macOS14.8.1 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) v236.4.5918 Question or Issue I have 50...
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tholmes33
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

I marked it as online-only and after a bit of time it reduced the space on my local HD. But this was after uploading.  However, I have over 2TBs of footage I need to upload on my team's dropbox account. How do I upload that without it taking up space on my main HD since I have no where near 2TBs of space laying around on my local drive? What workflow do you suggest?

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Hannah
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2 months ago

Hi from me as well, tholmes33.

The best way to go about this would be to separate the files in batches, upload one batch, make it online-only and then continue with the next one.

It might not be ideal, but for the files to actually sync to the account, they initially need to be in their original form and take up hard drive space.

I hope this helps.

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