To see which files are really taking up your storage space, adjust your Dropbox settings so that online-only files have both logical and physical size set to zero. The reason for this is that file size is calculated based on something called “logical size” rather than “physical size”. If you’re using Smart Sync with macOS High Sierra 10.13 and up, you may notice that online-only files appear to take up space when you try to manage storage space in your Mac settings. Online-only files take up a small amount of space on your hard drive because the placeholder requires space to store the file name and the shortcut to, but it takes up much less space than the file itself would. Why do online-only files still appear to take up space?
Set files you add to web to online-only by default Note: If an application on your computer needs a file to be local to function properly, automatic Smart Sync will set it to local temporarily and return it to online-only later. If you’re on a Dropbox Business team, and you prefer your admin manage this setting for you Let my admin manage this setting.Under Save hard drive space automatically, select On.Open your Dropbox desktop app preferences.That way, the files that you don’t regularly use won’t take up space on your computer. You can turn on automatic Smart Sync so that files that you don’t open from your computer for a few months become online-only automatically and new files you add online become online-only by default. However, those files will no longer appear in the Dropbox folder on your computer. Selective sync also helps you save hard drive space by removing files from your hard drive so that they’re online-only.
Dropbox removes it from your computer’s hard drive, so that it only takes up space in your Dropbox account online.Īnytime you open an online-only file, Dropbox automatically changes it to be “local” again, but you can change it back to online-only at any time. You can only open it if you’re connected to internet. If you set a file or folder to online-only, you’ll still see the file or folder in the Dropbox folder on your computer, but it’s just a placeholder. This means that they take up space both on your computer’s hard drive and in your Dropbox account and are available whether you’re online or offline. If you’ve never turned on Smart Sync or set a file or folder to online-only, then all of the files and folders in the Dropbox folder on your computer are “local”.
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