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rwright
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

I need some clarifications on the "manage hard drive space" section of the Dropbox preferences.

What does the above mean in the "manage hard drive space" section of my account? According to the way I sync my account everything is supposed to be stored online only, even though I constantly have ...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey rwright, sorry to jump in here.

 

Can you let me know how much hard drive space your computer has (in total)?

 

Also, how much space do the files in your Dropbox account take up?

 

You can see this in the plan tab of your account settings here.

rwright's avatar
rwright
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Can you let me know how much hard drive space your computer has (in total)? 494GB

 

Also, how much space do the files in your Dropbox account take up? 2T

 

On my IMac Apple Support saw that the Dropbox was taking up 400+ GB as system data and right now my system data is using 84 GB.

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