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Rick M.

How does Apple calculate space used? Could the OS use metadata from the dropbox placekeeper/shortcut?

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If I have two copies of the ExactSame video in different subdirectories will they have the same link?

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Is a link ever invalidated because of a move file? rename file? rename containing folder or higher level folder? delete&restore? share file or folder? unshare file or folder? other?

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My curiosity is peaked because the "placeholder files" contain both file metadata and thumbnail images of photos or whatever, and it makes me wonder if those "placeholder files" possibly contain Large & Variable amount of space if "large thumbnails" are present.

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Disclaimer: I haven't tried this! But Apple says," APFS introduces snapshots — a new way to create instant snapshots of your entire disk. The snapshots are cheap and fast to create and delete, they don’t consume additional disk space. Time Machine now uses them to create its hourly local snapshots, which are the main contibutor to the purgeable space. In contrast to HFS+, APFS doesn’t delete its snapshots until really necessary. Over time, as you make changes to the data on your disk, the snapshots may pile up until 80% of disk capacity is taken. Snapshots older than 24 hours are deleted automatically. Consequently, About This Mac > Storage may now show the System category taking too much space on macOS High Sierra.

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You can control snapshot manually. So turn it off; do smart sync; then request a manual snapshot. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

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Ryan, you can "see" all your files all the time if you use the web based access.

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My guess is that the latest "Reader" only reads and Adobe wants you to buy "Acrobat" to edit a PDF. (This is not the same as fill-in-the-blank PDF files.)

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Since DropBox already HAS the files there is no upload time due to file size. DB replaces the files on HardDrive with links to DB. At sometime, such as upon power-down & full ReBoot(!), macOS takes a snapshot of the files at which point the HD should appear to have more space. Exceptional conditions, such as a HD that is sooo full that adding the "links" cannot be done, or such as the user not doing a full power-off, can delay your results.

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m-cat, do you have a files-request folder or a folder called "Apps" (I think it is)? Either of these could increase use of your Dropbox-Quota with your realizing it.

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Re: When exactly is a link invalidated?

When exactly is a link invalidated?

Re: Smart Sync still taking up local space

Re: Smart Sync still taking up local space

Re: Smart Sync still taking up local space

Re: Smart Sync still taking up local space

Re: PDF files open as read only on Acrobat Reader ...

Re: Smart Sync still taking up local space

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