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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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JayPeeGee303
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes I did have a cache folder there, which I deleted to trash bin.

Not sure if this is meant to happen, but it quickly re appeared.

Size of Cache folder is only 56Mb

Original issue still exists.

Thanks

Justin

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    Jay
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    11 months ago

    Are you able to right click that folder in the Dropbox folder itself to see the properties to see that size?

     

    Do you have any files marked as online-only?

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