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Hebephrene
Explorer | Level 3
2 months ago

How to free up space from my hard drive?

The Harddrive on my Acer desktop is almost full so to free up space I am uploading redundant music files to One Drive. Then I am deleting them from the Hard drive but notice that this action is not c...
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Hebephrene
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Additionally, when I right click on a file in my dropbox folder I do not see an option for online only. There is a Dropbox choice but even when clicking on that there is no option to make a file available in the cloud only and not on my desktop. Thanks

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Hannah
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2 months ago

Hey Hebephrene, can you please send us a screenshot of the options you see when right-clicking on a file in your Dropbox folder?

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    Hebephrene
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 months ago

    Hannah, I would love to but isn't that another very complicated convoluted process whereby instead of just attaching (one click) I have to identify the source, the image description and the dimensions? The battle is to simplify, not complicate, if I want to remain productive. 

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