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Short Story M.
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2 years ago

Capture temp files. Should I delete them?

I went looking for why my Mac was running out of disk space, and found over half a terabyte of video files in  /Library/Application Support/Dropbox-Capture/Temporary dating back to 2021. Support s...
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Short Story M.
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I think I found what happened, and perhaps a bug... files in the Dropbox Capture folder are typically 1-5 minutes or so, while those same recordings in /Library... seems to have not stopped until the next reboot -- one I just checked was 99 hours. None of the long ones are after August, so maybe a bug was fixed?

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Short Story M.
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

@Admin you can delete this thread - I moved it ti the Capture Feedback area

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    Megan
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    2 years ago

    Glad everything is back on track Short Story M.

     

    If you need anything else, give us a shout!

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