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jjbb72
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

Dropbox is using my hard drive space, despite using online-only for my local content.

Dropbox is using 111GB of my hard drive space.  I was in the understanding that this was a "cloud" type service.  I recently hit the on-line only setting, but no space cleared on my hard-drive.
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jjbb72
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

Disregard, it took it several minutes to move it to the on-line only.  Kind of shady thing Dropbox is doing.  Why are we paying for on-line storage when you all are setting it up to save on the customer's hard drive???  Lost some respect with me on this one...

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