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Brain Toomer's avatar
Brain Toomer
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

dropbox taking up local hard drive space

OK I installed dropbox for desktop and during set up selected the option to store its contents online only, not locally. Then I moved a 392GB folder from local hard drive to dropbox in order to have ...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi Brain Toomer, thanks for messaging the Community!

 

Files that are directly moved into the Dropbox folder from elsewhere on your computer remain local until you decide otherwise.

 

Once the files are fully synced, you can mark those files and folders as online-only.

 

If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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