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Online only not working
Hey!
I've had a problem few weeks now. Even I've tried to put almost everything online only -mode, nothing happens in the hard drive storage. Any ideas what could be wrong? Last month everythin...
Hey there Henkka, thanks for using Dropbox and welcome aboard!
If your app is showing 'up to date' in your menu bar/system tray and you've set your Dropbox files to be 'Online Only' through the Smart Sync feature, then this space might be taken up by your cache folder.
Let me know if that's not the case!Moderator note: If you're using a Mac, and online-only files still take up space on your device, you might need to check this Help Center article too.
I think you'll still see files on your drive but (on my mac) they're tagged as online-only.
I believe the way it works is that if you try to access that file from your system, it will download the file and then open it.
The problem I have found is that there doesn't appear to be any way of unsetting that. I've changed the preferences to not have ANY folders or files online-only and nothing changes.
For this and a few other reasons, I'm bailing out of Dropbox after being with them since their very early days. It just doesn't seem reliable any more. Which is a shame. Anyway, hope the above (if my understanding is correct of this feature) will explain why you have those files still present.
