Help with selective sync and freeing up space on my Mac

Question

I am on the free dropbox plan, using a Mac with the dropbox app. My ****** drive is full and I have deleted almost everything but seeing that my dropbox folders are being copied to my ****** drive in addition to being on the web. Selective sync should allow me to not have the folders downloaded on my ****** drive but none of the instructions allow me to do it. I'd appreciate any help.

Megan · Answer

Hi @CarynS!

Still stuck with this, or did you work some magic and fix it? Either way, we'd love to know what fixed it for you, or if you still need some help.

Jay · Answer

Hi @CarynS, thanks for joining the Community!

Just for clarification, are you using selective sync, which prevents entire folders from appearing on your machine.

Are you using the online-only feature instead, which keeps the file structure, but files and folders take up no space on your Mac?

Any other info or screenshots would be helpful!