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nez_pottage
12 months agoHelpful | Level 6
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Missing "Manage Hard Drive Space" option when using Dropbox Backup
So there's a great feature in Dropbox desktop that allows you to see graphically what is taking up all of the space on your hard drive, and very quickly change certain/all dropbox content to online o...
ZGM
11 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Whaaaaat, is this why the majority of our staff don't have access to this extremely helpful feature?? Somebody at Dropbox needs to update the associated help article with this very important caveat —we figured it was still in a slow rollout phase but hearing this is just frustrating!
If it's due to a concern about somebody completely offloading their backed-up files off their system and then getting grumpy, could the two teams at Dropbox responsible for these features perhaps figure out how to exclude the backed-up folder structure from the "Manage Hard Drive Space" scan? Obviously the Dropbox app itself already knows the name of the made-invisible folder that stores the backed-up Desktop/Documents/etc folders since it can set the folder as invisible in the file system while still presenting it in the Dropbox Backup interface, so, umm, hardly an unknown quantity……