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Dropbox files now take up double space on my Mac
Hi there!
So today, just out of nowhere, I noticed all my Dropbox files have gone online-only. So I click on the clouds with the arrow down to download them to my MacBook. However, I noticed that a...
That's crazy, armin. Mine doesn't seem to have that issue.
Out of curiosity, do you have these checkboxes checked in Privacy & Security, Extensions, Added Extensions?
I unchecked mine a few days ago because I wasn't sure they were necessary, and that may have caused the issue (will wait to hear from your support person). I rechecked them yesterday and no more of my offline files seem to be changing to "online only" anymore, but all the ones that suddenly changed, and there are thousands of them, still remain as online only and I will have to manually change them, but I fear it will duplicate the hard drive space necessary and want to hear back from tech support first.
Also, here is the screenshot of the app still saying Beta. I have no idea how I'm supposed to update it because it's supposed to update on its own:
And here is a screenshot of finder not providing me the size of the dropbox folder, no matter how long I wait:
Sorry I missed your quesiton. My privacy and security extensions for dropbox are all checked. I never touched those.
