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orchidea18
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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How do I prevent Dropbox using so much memory on my computer? I already use SmartSync

How do I prevent Dropbox using so much memory on my computer? I already use SmarSync.  
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Fast4Gd
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

Hi. Deleting files eventually seemed to help, but wierdly Dropbox in top bottom right corner app is telling me I have about 400,000 files, and I'm pretty sure I don't! Or at least, if there might be 1-300,000 hiding somewhere, how might I find them to consider deleting them? Thank you.

Also, logging in to post here took AGES for dpbx to respond!

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