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tsomek
Helpful | Level 6
27 days ago

Hidden Dropbox logs folder is stuck, continually growing bigger, now beyond 300GB

Application Affected (Dropbox app & backup) Device (Optiplex 3060 i5-8500, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD) Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (Windows 10) Dropbox App Version (if using t...
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tsomek's avatar
tsomek
Helpful | Level 6
27 days ago

For reference, wanted to upload a couple of screenshots of

  1. The growing folder contents
  2. the status overlay when hoovering over the dropbox icon

And seeing point 2, I have started suspecting older hard disk backups might be messing things up..
The "1TB po.." that it seems to be downloading is an older hard disk, whose backup I have deleted.. 
So confused with all of this!

 

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