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ReRe2
New member | Level 2
16 days ago

How to return all files to offline?

I was having sync troubles so to save hard drive space I went to App/Preferences/Manage and selected all to be online. According to the app “…saves hard drive space. Files will still appear on your c...
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ReRe2
New member | Level 2

Putting them back, the invisible (grey in this pic) .dropbox cache grew to 110ish MB, then settled back to 37.7 MB.  Interesting (good).

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Walter
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6 days ago

Hey ReRe2 - thanks for the updates on this.

Can you please let me know if you're running any 3rd party apps that might be monitoring your files somehow or syncing and/or backing them up, apart from Dropbox?  Have you granted Dropbox full disk access as outlined here and did you install it with admin privileges in the first place? 

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