How to "Free up space" locally on my Linux device?

Hey JYoungCommercial!

You can follow the steps in this article to use our selective sync feature.

If you have any more questions, let us know!

How would I choose the "selective sync" option, please?

Hi JYoungCommercial, currently, there isn't an option to free up space with the online-only option on Linux OS. 

The selective sync option is still available, however, this would remove entire folders from your machine, and they will only be visible on the Dropbox site.

Thank you, Megan.

This works in Linux?

Hi there, JYoungCommercial​, let's jump right into this!

So, if you'd like to free up some hard drive space without deleting files, you have two options:

• You can use selective sync to remove entire folders from your Dropbox folder
• Or you can make your files online-only
  
  

Keep in mind that when using selective sync, the folders will be gone from the Dropbox folder, but they'll still be available on our website and other linked devices.

When making files online-only, the files will still appear in your Dropbox folder, but they'll change into placeholders with no physical size so they won't take up space. If you want to keep your content available locally you can choose to make them available offline. Based on what you described and asked it sounds like this feature would better suit you.

I hope the articles I hyperlinked provide enough info for you, but if you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

Thanks!