You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Hard drive is full, even though the files are online only.
I have made lots of files online only to free up space on my hard drive, but dropbox has stopped syncing claiming that there is not enough disk space.
The top level folder says that it has 5TB of c...
Hi, Nancy.
This is on my work computer, and I'm not going back there until after christmas, so I can't send you a screenshot.
Dropbox has about 11 gb left to sync, so it's almost finished.
Dropbox is located on an external 5tb hard drive, but even though the four folders in the dropbox folder is less than 100 gb in total, the drive says that it is full. It claims that there is 1 gb of remaining space. There is nothing else on the drive.
Hope this answers your questions, even though i couldn't provide the screenshots 😉
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffAs you can see from the screenshots, it is the dropbox folder that is taking up 5tb, even though the content is under 100 gb... Very strange.
I checked now, and the online-only files is set to "on".
- Walter
Hey Fridtjof1 - sorry to jump in here, but if you made sure that the app is 'up to date' and not still syncing in your menu bar, could you try clearing your cache folder and let us know if it helped improve matters for you?
