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idontknowhatimdoing
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Increase of 200GB internal storage space and AirDrop transfers intermittent

Hello,    Since the most recent Dropbox update, I've noticed that roughly 200GB's worth of storage has miraculously become available on my MacBook's internal SSD. This space wasn't available prior ...
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3 years ago

It's likely that some files have moved to online-only status, or space was just freed up since the upgrade to the newer version of the Dropbox desktop application for Mac OS.

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idontknowhatimdoing
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
Is there a way to prevent files/folders being online-only? Doesn’t seem like a hugely helpful feature for my workflow

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