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miniman's avatar
miniman
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Finding all offline folders

hi

I did a search although couldn't find this questions being asked. Sorry If I missed it!

I'm travelling and want to try and make some free space on my Macbook.  Is there a way I can find all the files taking up space from Dropbox, so I can set them to make available online only?

I have cleared some space already, although some of the folders have folders nested within them so could take a fair amount of time to trawl through manually.

Thanks for reading!


  • miniman wrote:

    Is there a way I can find all the files taking up space from Dropbox, so I can set them to make available online only?


    The only way is to navigate the files and folders on your computer and look at their sync icons, which indicate whether a file or folder is online or offline. There is no list showing all offline or online files.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    miniman wrote:

    Is there a way I can find all the files taking up space from Dropbox, so I can set them to make available online only?


    The only way is to navigate the files and folders on your computer and look at their sync icons, which indicate whether a file or folder is online or offline. There is no list showing all offline or online files.

    • Jay's avatar
      Jay
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi miniman, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

       

      While there isn't a method to do so, as Rich suggested, if you need to make all files online-only, you could right click the Dropbox folder and then mark it as online-only.

       

      This would free up space as any local files in the Dropbox folder would return to being online-only.

       

      If you need any further assistance, please let me know!

      • miniman's avatar
        miniman
        Explorer | Level 4

        hi Rich and Jay 

         

        Thanks for posting and sorry for the slow reply.

         

        I ended up using CC cleaner to show me the largest file sizes and then unticked the "make available offline" to free up space whilst travelling. 

         

        Cheers!