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Dropbox Backup
46 TopicsHidden .dropbox_bi folder storing 87GB of files locally!
Hi, I've just recently set up a new Dropbox Professional account. After installing the desktop app on my Mac I also set up a backup of my external SSD, which completed successfully yesterday. Standard Dropbox file sync seems to be working fine, and the Dropbox app says everything is up to date, but for some reason I now have a new hidden folder under my Mac user folder called .dropbox_bi. That folder is storing 87GB of files on my primary SSD, apparently related to the 220GB of data backed up from the external SSD. Is this my life now? Or is there some way to recover that massive waste of precious primary SSD storage space?Solved24KViews2likes92CommentsDropbox says I have 7.9GB of backup files, but I don’t know how to find them and delete them.
Dropbox plan free Device iPad, iPhone, MacBook Pro Question or Issue The free plan gives me 2gb of storage. Dropbox says I am using almost 8gb, and that almost all of it is in backups. I’m not aware of using any backup features. And I can’t find the backup files. How can I delete all the backup files so I can use my account again?100Views1like2CommentsMy Dropbox is full of backup files that I can't remove.
My dropbox claims to be full, but I have no essentially no files on it. When I try to see what's taking up the space, it claims that "Backup" is taking up 2.7gb out of my 2gb of space. But I have no backups, and I have no linked devices. How can I remove these "backups"? What are they backups of? Is there some way I can just "factory reset" my account to just as if I had started a new account, maybe?Solved215Views1like4Comments