WillyJP

Yes, Megan, you have my correct gmail address (with "…4252@…." in it) , the one I use for my Dropbox account anyway (I have others for various reasons). I am all for help with this! I POSSIBLY am going to need a bigger HDD (which means a new Mac!), or offload some of my archival stuff in that Documents file if I absolutely…

in Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space. Why is that happening, and how can I free up space? Comment by WillyJP June 12

Wow! It sound like you solved it in your situation. My concern (and I'm not as adept here as you obviously are) is that it APPEARS that ALL of my Documents & Desktop are ONLY in ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox. In Finder I have 2 entries for "Documents" and one clearly shows a path from Dropbox and the other one is an…

in Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space. Why is that happening, and how can I free up space? Comment by WillyJP June 12

Following the instructions that you linked me to, I identified the "root-mount" folder in the path described. Info shows that folder only has 1.4 GB on disc, so clearly a cache of that size (at present anyway) is not my problem. What I'm tentatively concluding from the steps you, Nancy & Jay have taken me through, is that…

in Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space. Why is that happening, and how can I free up space? Comment by WillyJP June 2

As far as I can see, a cache for up or downloading isn't my problem. As I think I said above, before few months ago, when I first started using Dropbox to backup my Documents & Desktop, I think my disc usage used to fluctuate by a significant amount. I can't say for sure because I wasn't close to full and didn't really…

in Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space. Why is that happening, and how can I free up space? Comment by WillyJP May 31

I followed instructions that I found in several places, all essentially the same. Here's the one I saved from a search in the Apple User Community, titled "Where to find the Dropbox cache. When I follow the steps as set out in this screenshot I'm attaching, I get the 40 byte file I attached above. That is, it appears along…

in Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space. Why is that happening, and how can I free up space? Comment by WillyJP May 31

Here's a screenshot of page you specified (att.). I don't have a problem with the stuff in my Dropbox being "online only" that that's a small part of my problem. I do want my Documents & Desktop ON my machine. When I started this I understood that they were going to be "backed up" and assumed that the original would stay…

in Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space. Why is that happening, and how can I free up space? Comment by WillyJP May 29

Well forgive me if I'm a bit hazy in my understanding of how this all works! But here's a few facts: My Documents Folder is 516 GB "on disc" and my Desktop Folder is 92 GB "on disc" (totaling 609 GB). My Dropbox Folder is shown under "Locations" (and my Mac HD is another line there) as if it's NOT "on disc" BUT it's size…

in Dropbox is using 605 GB of disc space. Why is that happening, and how can I free up space? Comment by WillyJP May 29

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