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unguitar
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2 years ago

Dropbox folder in Mac HD taking up most of the space

I'm migrating from an iMac with Mojave to a mini with Sequoia. Time machine run well and installed everything smoothly (of course I have to update some of the apps to the new OS). It looks li...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey unguitar, thanks for your post!

There are two ways to free up space on your hard drive.

One is to make your files "online-only"; when you make your files online-only, they stop taking up physical space on the drive but you can still see them in your Dropbox folder.

Another way is to unsync entire folders from your Dropbox folder, but keep them available on dropbox.com with selective sync.

I hope this helps, but let me know if you have any questions.

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