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Brian Geise
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

I made my files online-only, but they're still taking up hard drive space.

My hard drive is full so I set all files to online only.  How do I get the files off my local hard drive to open up storage on my hard drive?   As is try to follow instructions on the help pages my D...
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Brian Geise's avatar
Brian Geise
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

I don't think so

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    Nancy
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    9 months ago

    Thanks for that! If you click on the little arrow at the right corner instead, can you see the Dropbox icon then? 

    If not, please go to your Programs from the Start menu and try to restart the Dropbox app from there; let me know if the icon appears after that.

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