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When I check my storage, what does "other hard drive space used" mean?
What does this even mean? It's telling me I've used nearly 1.5 tb when I only have 10gb in my folder?
Rich
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jdailey wrote:
What does this even mean? It's telling me I've used nearly 1.5 tb when I only have 10gb in my folder?
Where are you seeing this? Is it referring to space on your local hard drive or your usage in your Dropbox account? If it's the space in your account, look at your Plan page for a breakdown of your usage. What does it say is using the space; regular files, shared, backup, etc.?
RMB on systray icon, LMB on profile picture, "Manage hard drive space".
I comes up with a nice bar graph that sort of matches the sizes from RMB/properties on DropBox folder in file explorer ( Size: 462GB Size on disk: 125 GB ), does this imply some slight compression? (I have no files "online only")
- Rich
spokes2 wrote:
DropBox folder in file explorer ( Size: 462GB Size on disk: 125 GB ), does this imply some slight compression? (I have no files "online only")
With that big of a size difference, I'd suspect that you have some files or folders marked as online-only. It's common to see some size difference between the two (depending on several different factors not related to Dropbox), but that large of a difference, and with the size on disk being smaller, I'd bet you have files or folders marked as online-only somewhere in your Dropbox.
I used to have some folders un-synced but checked all today (larger ssd) now all files show up in local drive. If I un-sync a buried folder the top level folder changed from a check to a dash.
