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244 TopicsDropbox on Linux: Selecting alternate Drive for Location
Long time user of OneDrive on Windows but moving to Linux Mint, and with no support for OneDrive on Linux, I have once again taken up a subscription to the Dropbox service. Glad they are reading the market's distrust of Windows 11! So installed Dropbox on Windows and that's working fine as always, but moving to Linux Mint with dual booting for now. On Windows I have selected where I wanted the local storage folder to reside on a drive other than the System C: drive, but this seems to be missing from Linux. I installed the Flatpak version 204.4.5420 and at the suggestion of another help site also installed Flatseal and gave Dropbox access to all options available in the Filesystem section, including specifically "/media". Yet I seem only to be able to select a folder under /home/username. I have access to all the drives on the computer (including a Windows drive, the Data drive where Dropbox data is, etc) but I can't make Dropbox on Linux see any drive. What I would like to be able to do is have one drive that has the Dropbox folder that both Windows and Linux access. This would save on hard disk space, and the few days it's going to take to sync the files to the Linux folder. Even if Windows wasn't a consideration, I'd still prefer to have my Dropbox data on a separate Data drive like I have always had, more for disk space management and backup processes than anything. Anyone had any success in choosing an alternate folder location on Linux?1.8KViews0likes2CommentsmacOS system data now 890 GB after removing Dropbox
iMac 5K 27", 2020. macOS Sequoia 15.3. Was using Dropbox for File Providers, latest build I uninstalled Dropbox from this device yesterday. Deleted the dropbox folder The "system data" section of my macOS Settings panel for Storage is now in the 890 GB neighborhood. It's never this high. I've run a few other tools to get a feel for extraneous libraries, apps, caches, etc. but I can find no trace of what would be causing System Data to be almost half of the 2 TB capacity of the drive. It wasn't this high before I removed Dropbox, either. So I'm wondering if maybe I didn't correctly delete the files that were saved locally (few were online-only). 800GB is somewhere in the ballpark of how much Dropbox content I had stored locally. Is there a trick to getting rid of the File Provider version of Dropbox and all local copies of the files? It was significantly easier before the File Provider restrictions.9Views0likes0CommentsI see a folder with 265GB of data, but when I open it, it's empty.
Hi. Please help me.. I am on macbook pro 2015, macos storage management shows my dropbox folder to be 265.4GB, but when I click to see what is inside- it is empty. My plan is 2GB, so where are my files? I also have the dropbox app uninstalled. This has been going on for over a year, so annoying. Please help me and I will be eternally grateful.255Views0likes6CommentsCannot set files as online-only on new Windows 11 computer
Dropbox (Business account) installed on a new computer, and it won't set files as online-only; every file is available offline, which filled the memory on a brand new SDD. The .dropbox.cache was deleted and re-installation after restart, using selective sync to show only selected files (but not the files I need). Admin console shows that online only is the default. "Manage Hard Drive Space" doesn't work, because as soon as files are selected to be "online only", they go back to being available offline immediately. There is another computer I use that does NOT have this issue, only on new computer (Win 11 home, then upgraded to Win 11 Pro).35Views0likes8CommentsOn MacOS if home dir is on external disk will Dropbox folder be there too?
I am considering getting a new Mac Mini M4 with a smallish root disk. It is possible to put ones home directory on an external disk. This will allow me to place large space hogs like Photos and Music onto cheaper space. However, will the other space hog, Dropbox be there or will the $HOME/CloudStorage/Dropbox directory still be on /?18Views0likes1CommentDropbox says it can't sync due to insufficient disk space on my Mac, but I have more than enough.
Dropbox is saying it cannot sync files to my desktop with a; 'Can't sync, not enough free disc space' warning Although my desktop has over 1TB of free space No backups are taking up space, cache is cleared, all files not in use are set to online only (even if they were to download they wouldn't take up a terrabyte of spaceSolved35Views0likes4CommentsDropbox folder on Mac is larger than it appears, why?
Hi I'm quite new to this, so likely being a bit daft, but......... I'm trying to manage storage space on my Mac to enable dropbox to sync. I'm currently seeing a dropbox error message..."Your hard drive space is low - Dropbox can't sync until you free some disc space on your computer" There is a discrepancy between the dropbox folder size 155Gb and it's contents 38Gb. ThanksSolved30Views0likes6CommentsDropbox is using my hard drive space, despite using online-only for my local content.
Dropbox is using 111GB of my hard drive space. I was in the understanding that this was a "cloud" type service. I recently hit the on-line only setting, but no space cleared on my hard-drive.28Views0likes2CommentsDropbox removing external disk support for Mac users
In case anyone's unaware... if you're a Mac user storing your Dropbox on an external drive, you'll shortly lose that ability. https://talk.tidbits.com/t/dropbox-drops-support-for-storing-files-on-an-external-drive-and-onedrive-retains-it/20797/16 https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changes Just confirmed this with DB support (see below). Gutted - been with Dropbox for years and our entire video team flow is based around it 😕 >Hi there, I read today that you are scrapping the ability to store the Dropbox folder on external disks, on OSX. I'd like to ask more about this please. > Hello Jon, and thank you for contacting Dropbox Support. My name is Joseph, and I will be more than happy to look into your request, right away. That is correct Jon, as part of the Dropbox for macOS update, the Dropbox folder must be located in ~/Library/CloudStorage. >This is a showstopper for us, and will mean we have to move to another service. We have a large distributed team using DB for video work, no way it'll fit within internal drives. Is there a workaround? > I totally understand and I apologize for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, there is no workaround on this as changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by macOS. >This change doesn't seem to have hit us yet - we're running a variety of machines inc Ventura What will trigger its enforcement? Can we stay on an earlier OS or Dropbox version? >The updates happening automatically every time the Dropbox app is restarting, for example if your device never restarts it should maintain the older version but we can't guarantee full functionality on older versions of the application. >So what will happen - if we have a Dropbox folder on an 8TB drive and a tiny internal drive - will it try to clone stuff across and eat up the space? What's the mechanism? >That's right, it will try to move the content on your internal drive until it has no space and gives you an error. >Is Smartsync still supported? I.e. will it move stuff to being online only if it won't fit? >It is, however it is now known as online-only.Solved104KViews25likes697Comments