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Re: Dropbox fills up my hard drive on Mac OS
Thanks for the reply. Understood on the upload process.
If you don't mind answering, is this the same on the other end? For example, once I upload the 2TB to Dropbox, when my team needs to access the footage to start editing, they'd have to mark the folder "make available offline" (which would fill up local drive) and then copy over to an external to then work on. Then they'd have to change the dropbox folder to back to online-only to free up the local drive again. Do I have that right?
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- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
If the team needs to download or access the files, they would need to mark the folder as available offline, which would then download the files to their local Dropbox folder.
They can then copy the files to the external drive, if their Dropbox folder isn't already located on the external drive, in order to edit the files.
Once done, they can copy the edited files into the Dropbox folder for them to sync back to the site, and then mark the files as online-only.
- Rich
Super User II
... when my team needs to access the footage to start editing, they'd have to mark the folder "make available offline" (which would fill up local drive) ...
They don't have to mark the entire folder as Available Offline. They could do that for individual files so the entire folder doesn't download. They could also just open the files as is. The nice thing about files marked as Online-only is that they still appear in the local Dropbox folder without taking up space, and they can be opened like any other file. When done so, Dropbox will automatically download the file and it will be opened as usual.
Point is, they don't have to fill up their local drive to access the folder. That only happens for you because the files need to be in your local Dropbox folder before Dropbox can upload them.
