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Probes
Helpful | Level 6
2 months ago

My hard drive is full even though I've set my folder to be online-only

Agreed to the new Mac Folders and the sync tells me my hard drive is full and I have all of my folders set for Make online only. Everything shows clouds but when I check my hard drive utility it says...
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    Probes
    2 months ago
    It appears to be ok. Thanks
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Hannah
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2 months ago

Hey Probes, the setting you sent us in the preferences about the default sync state of the files refers to new files added to your Dropbox folder.

 

Can you please right-click the Dropbox folder itself and see if the "make online-only" option is clickable for you? If so, click it and let me know if anything happens.

 

If nothing happens, please right-click on the folder again and click on 'get info' to get a screenshot of that as well.

 

Also, please go to this page and make sure that the "online-only files on Mac" option is enabled.

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    Probes
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 months ago

    make online-only is available and I clicked it but nothing happened. Get Info screenshots and others below. Page setting is correct.

       

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      Probes
      Helpful | Level 6
      2 months ago

      Just started to re-syc once again... once synced restarts sync

       

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        Probes
        Helpful | Level 6
        2 months ago

        The first time it synced it lasted overnight and there were green checkmarks next to each folder cloud. I have not seen these since that first sync.

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