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Mac Finder continues to show large size of Dropbox Folder despite everything being online-only
Hi, everyone. Thanks in advance for your help, wisdom, and support.
I have a problem several others have experienced, but none of the solutions I found here seem to be working. Simply put, I ha...
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey Ecnerwal, if your files are online-only (ie., they have the online-only icon) and the properties confirm that the physical space is 0kb for these files, then it seems that the feature works as it should from our side.
Some of the locations where you can see a file's size, will display the logical size, others the physical size.
An online-only file's placeholder takes up approximately 0kb, which is the physical size.
The logical size of the file is the actual size of the file, if it were downloaded to the device.
In other views of Finder, the OS will report the logical size, which is probably why you're seeing the behavior you're seeing.
I hope this helps!
Hi, if the files still take in disk space even if they're not downloaded what is the use of files on demand?
The file from the attached screenshot is not downloaded and still takes in disk space. So I assume that this disk space cannot be used for other files. What if the size of all Dropbox files exceeds my disk space?
When doing an online search about this I find a lot of people with the same problem without a solution.
Yes of course, do you have my email-address?
