Selective Sync: How to see actual disk space used?

Ben S.31

Hi There, 

 

Both Mac OS and Dropbox state 1.49TB is being used which is incorrect because 100's of gigabytes isn't being synced to the Mac.

 

I need to understand the actual disk space Dropbox is using on the Mac, not the theoretical total if everything was synced - how do I do this?

 

Cheers, Ben

Ben S.31

For anyone else struggling with this, there's a preference in your account but you have to login to the website, it doesn't seem to be in the app (which creates a frustrating waste of time sorry!).

 

1. Login to www.dropbox.com
2. Click on your name icon (little circle with your initials)
3. Choose settings
4. Scroll to the last third of the page and look for 'Online-only files on Mac'
5. Turn this ON 

As noted in settings: 'This displays online-only file sizes in Mac Finder as zero bytes so you can easily review which files are taking up hard drive space.'

 

Hope that helps someone because endless searching found nothing - searching works if you use the correct search terms which of course, you don't know because you don't know what the feature is called!

 

Cheers, Ben