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Fridtjof1
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Hard drive is full, even though the files are online only.

I have made lots of files online only to free up space on my hard drive, but dropbox has stopped syncing claiming that there is not enough disk space. The top level folder says that it has 5TB of c...
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Fridtjof1's avatar
Fridtjof1
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

As you can see from the screenshots, it is the dropbox folder that is taking up 5tb, even though the content is under 100 gb... Very strange. 

 

I checked now, and the online-only files is set to "on".

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Walter
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2 years ago

Hey Fridtjof1 - sorry to jump in here, but if you made sure that the app is 'up to date' and not still syncing in your menu bar, could you try clearing your cache folder and let us know if it helped improve matters for you? 

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