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.
Group Container vs Cloud Storage. Fight!
I've got ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox taking up 367gb and that's all well and good but I also have ~/Library/GroupContainers/G7HH3F8CAK.com.getdropbox.dropbox.sync/root-mount taking up 400gb DB is telling me my files are up to date. Some are online only. What gives? What's the sync and root-mount doing? Is it safe to delete? Dare I ask? They do seem to be distinct memory allocations.
MacOS Dropbox folder location change and free disk space discrepancy
Apparently Apple started requiring File Providers like Dropbox to move their folders to ~user/library/cloudstorage, leaving only a folder alias at the original location. This caused problems in the beginning with file searches but these finally got sorted out. What is strange is that I recently replaced my laptop and after reinstalling Dropbox, the new default folder location is where it originally was, not in library/cloudstorage, and it's no longer an alias. I'd like to change this on my [older] home computer but I'm not sure if this is wise or even supported. I should mention that I'm running the newest Dropbox beta release, and the Dropbox helpdesk is encouraging me to reinstall Dropbox using the latest 'stable' build and not the beta. Does anyone have any experience with this? Second issue is a question of free disk space. I use PathFinder instead of the Mac Finder but these two utilities give different values for the remaining free space on disk. When determining the amount of free space, the Mac Finder seems to ignore the Dropbox folder entirely wherever it might be whereas PathFinder does include it. In other words, the Mac Finder [erroneously] lists an additional amount of free space equivalent to the size of the Dropbox folder. The Mac Disk Utility agrees with PathFinder's assessment of the amount of free space. Does anyone understand why this happens?
full hard drive
Sorry, after removing the Dropbox folder and transferring the contents to hard disk and erasing all the data contained in the drop box folder, my computer hard drive is still full of non-existent data, who knows the solution, my drop box app has been removed momentarily from the computer
Is it possible to have some files as online-only and others as available offline?
Hi all I use a Plus account (2TB dropbox space) I am currently syncing the desktop app on a 1TB drive. It seems that currently all of my dropbox files are synced on top of the hard disk. consuming too much space. I want to move only part of my content to "online-mode" (infrequently accessed files) and keep the daily-access files on the physical disk. Given this structure: Dropbox/folder-a - 1 GB Dropbox/folder-b - 2 GB Dropbox/folder-c - 4 GB Dropbox/folder-d - 8 GB Is it possible to have for example a and c accessible off-line (consuming disk space) while b and d are "not stored locally" so the total space consumed in Dropbox is 15 GB but the space actually consumed in the hard drive is 5 GB?
