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9 TopicsIs 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?250Views0likes3CommentsMacOS 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?2.1KViews0likes7CommentsChoosing my Dropbox folder location and renaming it as well
I'm using Windows 11. My C drive is an SSD (solid-state drive) with limited space and my D drive is a 1 TB HDD (hard disk). Dropbox wants to put its folder on the C: drive. I'm trying to change it to D:\myusername-dropbox (where myusername is my user name). But when I go to Advanced Settings and choose "Other" to select that folder, Dropbox insists on making the path D:\myusername-dropbox\Dropbox. I don't want the longer path with the Dropbox folder as a subfolder. I also don't want D:\Dropbox because I want to include myusername (the computer has several users). How can I put the Dropbox folder at exactly D:\myusername-dropbox ? Thanks.Solved1.1KViews0likes5CommentsI'd like to sync certain folders in my Dropbox to a different drive
I know this is a frequent request, and I'm sure it will be until it's been provided! My team relies on DB a lot and we store a great deal of large files on it. At the moment I need to sync about 320GB of data, in 2GB chunks, which is a normal amount for my work. I don't have that much free storage on my system drive, and can't free it up atm, so I'm having to sync in chunks of files, then move those to my working drive and de-sync them from my system drive, rinse and repeat. I've tried downloading them in chunks from the web but they fail when my PC locks overnight. One solution is to set up DB in a VM and use that to sync certain folders to an external drive...but is that really the best way, when DB could just add optional paths for certain folders? I'm constantly surprised by how basic and unfeatured the client side is!1.4KViews0likes6CommentsChanging where Dropbox syncs files on Mac OS
I’m a photographer with about 4TB of images that reside on an external WD Elements drive. I access these files from Lightroom to organize them and edit them. My original storage and backup plan when I had far fewer images was to have these same files stored on my computer (I would manually copy the files from the external drive onto the computer - a laptop but now a Mac Studio). The files on the Mac Studio were synced with Dropbox, and my desktop Dropbox app lives on my Studio. As I ran out of storage space on the Mac Studio I had to stop the automatic syncing of my files to Dropbox and now my Dropbox directory on the Mac Studio is all on-line only. (I’m not a Dropbox expert so I may not have these terms right.) My workflow is clearly a mess. I basically have two identical sets of files, one in my external drive and in Dropbox on-line, but they are not connected. Im worried about losing the link between my images and my Lightroom catalog. I’m hesitant to fix this without some good advice. I’m thinking I may need to move my Dropbox directory from my Mac Studio to my external drive, and then start syncing the 4TB of files on my external drive with Dropbox, and then delete the duplicate files that are currently in Dropbox. Does that seem to be the best approach?826Views0likes6CommentsGroup 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.2.2KViews0likes9Commentsfull 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 computer1.1KViews0likes3Comments