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Paul Curran 22
New member | Level 2
11 months ago

PC storage space is full, even though I've set my files to be online-only

I have changed all my Dropbox files to online only yet when i right click and 'properties', dropbox size is still at 742GB meaning I have ran out of local storage space. How do i free that space on m...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    11 months ago

    Within a few days it should clear - Dropbox has a cached directory that houses data in case you did such a request by accident

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Mark
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11 months ago

Within a few days it should clear - Dropbox has a cached directory that houses data in case you did such a request by accident

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