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Bonnie K.4's avatar
Bonnie K.4
Collaborator | Level 9
8 years ago
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Dropbox keeps saying "Your hard drive is almost full" but it isn't

I keep getting message pop-ups from Dropbox saying "Your hard drive is almost full. Use Smart Sync to free up space."   This is completely untrue. I have 60GB of free space on my computer, and I ...
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  • Lusil's avatar
    Lusil
    8 years ago
    Hi there Bonnie K.4! From the amount of space you mention that you have in total, it sounds like you’re on a Dropbox Business plan. Do you by any chance have Smart Sync enabled? If so, have you got any files online-only at all? Could you also please check the actual file sizeby:
    1. Ctrl+click on a file.
    2. Select Get Info
    3. Find the file size and in brackets you should see the size it takes up on your disk. If the file is set to online-only, then the size on disk should be minuscule.
     
    Let me know what you find and I’ll make sure to get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks! :grinning:
  • Lusil's avatar
    Lusil
    8 years ago
    Thanks for your prompt reply here, Bonnie K.4, much appreciated!
     
    Since you mention that:
    Bonnie K.4 wrote:

    I just checked the file size for one of the Online-only files and it says Size: 627MB, Size on disk: 4.00kb. So that seems to be working correctly. I checked a few more Online-only files and they all say they only take up 4.00kb.

    -it seems that Smart Sync is indeed working as normal and the error that you’re seeing is OS related. For this reason, I would kindly recommend getting in touch with Apple support for more info on this. 
     
    If you do have though any other questions, don’t hesitate to let us know and we’ll make sure to get back to you as soon as possible. :nerd:
ecko's avatar
ecko
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

Maybe @gguenerais has already resolved the issue? but I am also still having the same issue. So, i'll answer these questions.

 

1.  Dropbox 105.4.651 / macOS Catalina 10.15.14

2. Oscillates from "Can't sync files" to "Up to date". (Quitting/restarting dropbox can temporarily solve the sync issue)

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Walter's avatar
Walter
Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
6 years ago

Hi ecko; I'm sorry for the late reply and happy Monday!

 

I was wondering if you're still having issues with this, in which case, could you send us a screenshot of the app's status as shown within your menu bar? 

 

Have you perhaps re-installing the desktop app lately?

 

Keep us posted! 

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