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oduibhir
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Local storage decreasing when I set folders to online-only

I need to free up space on my iMac's local drive. I set one folder on my Dropbox drive to online-only and instead of freeing up space, I'm watching it slowly eat up the local drive. The folder I set ...
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oduibhir
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Hi Hannah and thanks for the suggestion.

 

I made the change you suggested about 75 minutes ago, unchecking two folders in selective sync. Together, those two folders had about 34 gb in them. The available space initially dropped a little but then started going in the right direction. At the peak, I got about 4 gb of space back. However, since then, it's been going back down again and I'm now less than 1 gb ahead of where I was when I set those two folders to selective sync. I never got anywhere close to the 34 gb back. Those folders have disappeared from Finder on my Mac.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Since you've enabled the online-only option on the site, could you now try marking folders as local, and then as online-only to see if this helps?

 

A screenshot showing the folders as they appear in Finder (while hiding any personal names and info) would also help to determine if they're online-only.

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