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Keeping Online-Only files at DropBox Due to Insufficient Local Storage
Please point out where I have gone wrong: At Setting/General, Online-only files on Mac set to “ON” as per appendix 1 At Finder (Mac), Open the Dropbox folder, Right-click the file or folder you'd ...
Hey khinkeh, thanks for posting on our Community and sorry to hear you're having issues with this.
Can you please confirm that you've set your files to be online only on your machine following these steps? You could also tell by taking a look at the syncing icons of the files inside your Dropbox folder.
If you have already set them to be online only and the desktop app is 'up to date' in your menu bar and not still syncing, you could also try clearing the cache folder.
Let me know of any updates!
Thank you so much for your excellent guide.
I have been successful in changing all my uploaded DropBox files at the local storage to online-only. As soon as the the syncing is completed, I will clear the cache files to vacate the hard disk space
