![]() dropbox.cache folder is inside your Application Data directory or you can access it directly by entering “%HOMEPATH%\Dropbox\.dropbox.cache” in the Windows Explorer path bar. If you are using Windows instead of a Mac, you can do the same using Windows Explorer. If you do not have hidden folders visible on your Mac, you can access the cache folder directly by opening Finder, clicking on the “Go” menu, and choosing “Go to Folder” (or clicking on Shift Command G while in Finder). I was able to click on them and drag them to the Trash manually (or use a keyboard shortcut to delete them, like Function Delete), empty my Trash, and the space was now free on my hard drive again. In it were the large files that I had removed from syncing with my computer. Inside that folder, I found many other folders, but the two most important ones were labeled with today’s date and yesterday’s date. In that folder, there was a hidden folder named. On my Mac, I have hidden folders displayed, so I just opened Finder and opened my Dropbox folder. To do this, you will need to be able to view hidden folders (directories) on your computer or access the hidden folder directly by its path. This cache stores things for approximately 3 days, but if you want to get rid of things sooner than that, you can manually delete things. This means, however, that when you delete something, it is not gone right away. I did some digging and discovered that Dropbox stores a cache to help with logging and with undo-ing accidental deletions. As my computer synced with Dropbox, the files were removed from my computer, but I did not see any space freed up in my hard drive storage. ![]() ![]() I went in to Dropbox and created a new folder that did not sync to my computer and moved the large files into it. I had some large files in Dropbox that I wanted to keep in Dropbox, but no longer wanted to sync to my computer. I was recently working on clearing out some space on my hard drive. ![]()
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