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Dropbox uses a ton of hard drive space despite most files being online only
So, I've put ALL my files on online-only because my Mac was running out of space. In my Mac settings, Dropbox takes up 108 GB currently. Once I actually look at what folders are taking up space it's less than 2 GB (you can see in the screenshot what I mean). What is taking up all this space?
Keeping Online-Only files at DropBox Due to Insufficient Local Storage
Please point out where I have gone wrong: At Setting/General, Online-only files on Mac set to “ON” as per appendix 1 At Finder (Mac), Open the Dropbox folder, Right-click the file or folder you'd like to set to online-only, expect to click on “Make online-only” but no such option at my desktop (MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6). Not sure why! The Local Hard disk is still clogged-up with DropBox files that I want to convert to online-only, as per Appendix 2. Please advise the steps required to clear out the files. Do I need to carry out file deletion? Next, I tried to transfer more files into DropBox (from an external drive) expecting no local hard disk space would be used since the new files are online-only. However, the same error message, as per Appendix 3, appears. Questions: What other settings are needed in addition to setting to ON for “Online-only files on Mac”? Why is there no option at my right-click on DropBox folders or files to pick “Make online only” What additional steps are need to read/paly my online-only files, apart from being connected to Internet. Do I need to delete the existing files at the Local Disk to free up the occupied space after my files become online only?Hard drive full of system data on macOS, how can I change it?
Dropbox eats up computer memory in the form of system data, although all folders are not set to "offline available", but can only be viewed online. How do I fix the problem? The computer has 500 GB of hard disk space, 78 GB are my documents, 53 GB are apps, macOS 20 GB and 340 GB (!) of system data. The computer's memory is actually full, and the memory for system data keeps growing as soon as I delete files. Some new files cannot be saved (simple text documents) because there is supposedly not enough memory. I hope someone can help me…!
Real folder size won't show in Finder
Hello, I am looking to resolve an issue I'm just experiencing now for the first time. When I do a command + i to see the size of a dropbox folder on my finder, the finder now just show me the size that the folder take locally. Before I could see the size of the full folder + the local size. For example, I have a folder of 20 go with 5 go of it accessible offline : Before the finder was saying "20 go (5 go on the local disk)" Now the finder show me "5 go (5 go on the local disk)" Here is a screencaps that illustrate the issue : To the left I have the folder "PLAN 1" in the dropbox via finder, it indicates 25 ko for 551 elements To the right I have the exact same folder on my back-up hard drive, it indicates 42 go for 551 elements (the real size of the folder). So my question is, how this feature suddenly disapperead and how can I make it come back ? It is an essential part of my business to be able to check precisely the amount of data I have ! For info, I'm running Ventura 13.6. One of my attempted was to update de MacOS because the problem started when I was on Monterey. Thanks a lot ! 🙂
