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Huge .dropbox.cache folder on one laptop
Hi,
I have a free Dropbox account of 20GB, 50% used.
On one of my laptops, Dropbox has a hidden folder ".dropbox.cache", which is huge (420GB) and which I already deleted a few times, but it keeps coming back?
I'm using the same Dropbox account on another machine, syncing the same thing, and this folder is peanuts in size (50MB)...
Any ideas?
Cheers!
Thanks for posting here, charliedotcrews!
I’d recommend taking a look at this Help Center article, as a first step.
If you have any sort of questions after that, let me know.
I think I now what is happening.
On my remote machine, I have an application running updating a log file every 20 seconds. This file is currently about 65MB big.
Every time my machine syncs this updated file, a version is stored in the old_files subfolder of .dropbox.cache.
Not sure why that is, or why it keeps the old files until eternity...
Any ideas?
- Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for posting here, charliedotcrews!
I’d recommend taking a look at this Help Center article, as a first step.
If you have any sort of questions after that, let me know.
Ok, so it keeps the files for three days. That seems to be the issues then. Thanks.
Hazel to the rescue then to clear out this folder more quickly...
