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Mutual Friends
New member | Level 1
11 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's avatar
    Mutual Friends
    11 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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NJBarnes
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

Hi all.  I have a similar issue.  I have migrated to a new Mac mini M4 with 4TB and then as I was short on space migrated Dropbox to a RayCue hub with 4TB SSD storage.  I'm getting 'can't sync, not enough free space' on the hub.

Now I am confused.  In Finder it says I have 1.71 TB available, but in Disk Utility it says it's full.  Is this another Time Machine problem?  

Any help gratefully received :-)

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    Jay
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    9 months ago

    HI NJBarnes, thanks for the info. In order to look into this matter in more detail, I'd recommend contacting the support team directly for them to investigate further.

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