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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...
Thanks for the reply. Understood on the upload process.
If you don't mind answering, is this the same on the other end? For example, once I upload the 2TB to Dropbox, when my team needs to access the footage to start editing, they'd have to mark the folder "make available offline" (which would fill up local drive) and then copy over to an external to then work on. Then they'd have to change the dropbox folder to back to online-only to free up the local drive again. Do I have that right?
Rich
Super User II
Super User II... when my team needs to access the footage to start editing, they'd have to mark the folder "make available offline" (which would fill up local drive) ...
They don't have to mark the entire folder as Available Offline. They could do that for individual files so the entire folder doesn't download. They could also just open the files as is. The nice thing about files marked as Online-only is that they still appear in the local Dropbox folder without taking up space, and they can be opened like any other file. When done so, Dropbox will automatically download the file and it will be opened as usual.
Point is, they don't have to fill up their local drive to access the folder. That only happens for you because the files need to be in your local Dropbox folder before Dropbox can upload them.
