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GarethJax
Explorer | Level 3
6 months ago

Why does my disk space usage in Linux not match the Dropbox site?

I might understand why the shared files might be an issue (but i have to double check that). What's really weird is the regular files size, compared to DU -d 1 ..   
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GarethJax's avatar
GarethJax
Explorer | Level 3
6 months ago

Not that i know! 

is there a simple way to check the space occupied by each folder on dropbox ?

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Walter
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5 months ago

Hey GarethJax - just circling back to see if you still need any assistance with this.

If not, let us know what worked for you!  

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