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Eliasrr
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8 months ago

Why do the files in my local Dropbox folder take up hard drive space?

Dear Community!   Since the selection of laptops with big SSDs are limited and expensive, I thought why not store all of my data in the cloud. Dropbox seemed to be the logical option based on rev...
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Rich
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8 months ago
Eliasrr wrote:

I thought that the dropbox-folder on my computer was a "cloud-folder", but that doesn't seems to be the case?

No, that's not the case. The Dropbox folder is a regular folder like any other and anything you place in it takes up space on the drive, at least initially. After a file or folder has synced to your account it can be set to Online-only so it no longer takes space on the drive.

 

You can also use Selective Sync to remove the local copy of a folder while leaving it in your account online, though they will no longer appear in the Dropbox folder.

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