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JayPeeGee303
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11 months ago
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Dropbox folder on Mac is larger than it appears, why?

Hi I'm quite new to this, so likely being a bit daft, but......... I'm trying to manage storage space on my Mac to enable dropbox to sync. I'm currently seeing a dropbox error message..."Your har...
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    JayPeeGee303
    11 months ago

    Hi

    I've just done safe start reboot and that appears to have resolved the issue.

    Thanks

     

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Jay
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11 months ago

Hi JayPeeGee303, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Is it possible that you have files in the cache folder?

You can try deleting it using these steps.

Keep me updated with any progress!

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