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Dennis_Zuiderlicht
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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Dropbox uses a ton of hard drive space despite most files being online only

So, I've put ALL my files on online-only because my Mac was running out of space. In my Mac settings, Dropbox takes up 108 GB currently. Once I actually look at what folders are taking up space it'...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 years ago

    Is it possible that the hidden Dropbox cache folder is taking up space on your machine?

     

    Try deleting the folder using these steps to see if this helps.

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webatbcp_on_db
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

I have recently selected "online only" for nearly all my files that have been stored both on my MacBook Pro and on Dropbox so as to provide more space on my MBP hard drive.  When I started this process, I had only 4.7% of the hard drive available and now after about 18 hours of syncing, I have only 2.5% remaining.  I would have expected that of the hard drive space, the amount available would have increased not decreased.  Why is this happening? 

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Rich
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3 years ago
webatbcp_on_db wrote:

I would have expected that of the hard drive space, the amount available would have increased not decreased.  Why is this happening? 

Have you checked the .dropbox.cache folder, as Jay mentioned in the post just above yours?

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