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Whitecold
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Dropbox generating excessive cache files

I have an issue with Dropbox 166.4.2920 on macOS 12.0.1 Dropbox keeps generating utterly excessive cache files, 114GB currently on a folder that has 3.3GB of actual contents. How can I force Dropbox...
desktop
Mac
Storage space
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aroddick
New member | Level 2
1 year ago

Did this get resolved? I have the same problem: every two or three days my computer is getting filled up with Dropbox cache nonsense. 

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