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Mutual Friends
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3 months ago
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Dropbox says it can't sync due to insufficient disk space on my Mac, but I have more than enough.

Dropbox is saying it cannot sync files to my desktop with a; 'Can't sync, not enough free disc space' warning Although my desktop has over 1TB of free space No backups are taking up space, cach...
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    Mutual Friends
    3 months ago

    Hi there Nancy

    Thanks for the swift reply - it turned out to be old Time Machine lookups that Dropbox was still registering.

    Had to clear them manually via Terminal but seems to have done the trick!

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Mutual Friends
New member | Level 1
3 months ago

Hi there Nancy

Thanks for the swift reply - it turned out to be old Time Machine lookups that Dropbox was still registering.

Had to clear them manually via Terminal but seems to have done the trick!

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Walter
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3 months ago

We're glad to hear you sorted this out in the end and thank for keeping us in the loop too Mutual Friends 

Take care and let us know if anything else comes up! 

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