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Why is Dropbox taking up so much space on my iPad pro?
This might be the wrong category, but it was the closest I could find that seemed to fit.
My iPad is set to store files online only. I tried to research this as much as I could before coming h...
That seems to have done the trick. Thank you so much! I guess it was saving some kind of cache despite clearing it? Google Drive was doing the same thing, so I deleted it and just upload files via the browser. I feel like the dropbox app is too helpful to get rid of if I can help it though, so I'm glad this worked. Thanks again.
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi there, Penickart, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
This is indeed a bit strange, but let's see what we can find.
Does uninstalling the Dropbox app, restarting the iPad and then reinstalling it, help at all?
Let me know and we'll go from there.
That seems to have done the trick. Thank you so much! I guess it was saving some kind of cache despite clearing it? Google Drive was doing the same thing, so I deleted it and just upload files via the browser. I feel like the dropbox app is too helpful to get rid of if I can help it though, so I'm glad this worked. Thanks again.
