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Ciordia9
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Analysis of Dropbox Space Usage?

Before when all your Dropbox was on your HDD you'd use local utilities to tell you what you were storing and how much drive space it was taking up. Modern dropbox with selective sync, hidden folders,...
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Ciordia9's avatar
Ciordia9
Helpful | Level 6

Thanks Hannah, I know I can see the totality of the space usage but we really need some way to see this in a more granular fashion. Between shared client, friends, family, and personal space utilization along with deep tree structures it'll take quite some time to investigate what could be a pretty easy du -s -d 2 from a terminal.

 

Something for future quality-of-life UI improvement.

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swa22
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

The new version of DaisyDisk can show what files are taking up your Dropbox space quota by accessing it via the Dropbox network API, i.e. without necessarily syncing the cloud with your local computer, and it will also include the files that you explicitly exclude from syncing.

 

You can simply connect Dropbox account as a virtual disk to DaisyDisk and scan it as a regular local disk, build the visual map etc. For more detail see 

https://daisydiskapp.com/manual/4/en/Topics/CloudScan.php

 

P.S. I already posted this earlier today, but I can't see my previous post, so I'm reposting just in case. 

  • Ciordia9's avatar
    Ciordia9
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Hah, that's pretty cool! I'll check that out. Thanks!

  • Juergen B's avatar
    Juergen B
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    I was already a DaisyDisk user, but unaware of this feature. Very cool, trying this out now to reduce my DropBox footprint.

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