Dropbox Cache taking up too much space

danzilber

Hi everyone,

 

I seem to be having a significant issue with my dropbox, specifically cache.

 

Over the past week, I noticed that the storage available on my mac had dropped from 63GB to 4GB (of a 128GB SSD). After some digging, I found that the cache was the cause of this. I tried deleting it once I found it to be the cause of me losing storage rapidly, and initially storage went back to normal. However, the next day, it seemed like every minute another GB was being taken up by the cache.

Again, I tried to delete the cache, but as expected, the next day the same thing happened.

 

I know that dropbox clears the cache automatically every 3 days, but right now dropbox doesn't allow me to sync as I now have less than 1024MB remaining on my hard drive, and I am not sure if after those 3 days the same thing will happen.

 

Please help me

 

Thanks,

Daniel

danzilber

Hi Daphne,

 

Thanks for the reply

 

The files are downloaded to be local.

 

It did say it was up to date in syncing. However I think I have found the reason for it.

 

On my iPad, I use an app called Goodnotes as my note-taking app and have it auto-sync through Dropbox. I believe that once I make an edit to a note, the previous version of it gets put into dropbox cache. As it auto-syncs every time I make an edit, I believe that this is the cause, as I have been editing one note for the past few days and when I look into the cache, there are many files all being around 33MB.

 

One question is, is it possible to limit the amount of cache stored by dropbox? Say either by document versions (last 3 edits of a document) or by storage?

 

Thanks,

Daniel