How can I determine the storage consumption of offline files on macOS?

scottb5612

I'm trying to work out how to determine the storage consumption of offline files among files that are on-line only.
Over time I will hide directories to conserve local storage
but also selectively sync files and directories that I want to maintain locally among files and folders that are online only. It's this latter case that is the issue

I thought I had worked this out programmatically, but the criteria seem to change over time.

com.dropbox.attrs is the relevant extended attribute. But I'm not sure
how to decode the contents.

I'm running MacOS Tahoe 26.4.1

Scott [removed personal info]

Nancy

Thanks for posting on our Community, @scottb5612! Welcome aboard.

Can you go to your General tab here and enable the “Online-only files on Mac” setting that’s located at the bottom of the page?

This should help you understand how much space your offline files are taking up (as it shows your online-only files with 0 bytes on your computer). 

Let me know, if that helps.