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Dropbox using a lot of storage even with Smart sync on
I installed the Dropbox desktop app on my laptop and activated smart sync before I started syncing files.
When I started the sync process, the app started downloading all files and kept them locall...
I'll answer my own question, I started looking through my files and discovered that for some reason, all zip files, and some other random files and filetypes was downloaded, after manually selecting a few files and select "Online-only", it refused to delete them and kept them as local files.
Reinstalling the dropbox app seems to have fixed the issue, dropping total used space from 200gb to around 2gb, which is a HUGE improvement.
I'll answer my own question, I started looking through my files and discovered that for some reason, all zip files, and some other random files and filetypes was downloaded, after manually selecting a few files and select "Online-only", it refused to delete them and kept them as local files.
Reinstalling the dropbox app seems to have fixed the issue, dropping total used space from 200gb to around 2gb, which is a HUGE improvement.
