Application Affected Dropbox Desktop Device MacBook Pro, M4 Pro, 14-inch, Nov 2024 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Tahoe 26.3 (25D125) Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 242.4.5815 Question or Issue I have a very fast laptop with 48 GB of memory. Yet constantly my computer lags because of Dropbox taking up an enormous amount of memory, for instance right now, it uses 34GB of ... Dropbox is using 34GB of memory on my macOS Tahoe ...

Understanding the Context

- Dropbox Community It sounds like you're on a Dropbox team, as you mentioned you have 5 TB of quota. You can check to see how large your folders and files are on your Dropbox account by following these steps, which will allow you see the sizes on the Dropbox site. You can then choose to delete any files or folders from your account online using these steps. The Dropbox folder is that same as any normal folder on your computer, aside from the fact that it allows syncing with the Dropbox service.

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Files will take up space on your computer in this folder, unless you use selective sync (to prevent entire folders from appearing on your computer), or marking files as online-only. To enable that, Dropbox treats each collaborator as a “member” of that shared folder in their own account, so they need to have an account. Permissions need to be tied to identity (so you can revoke, track changes, etc.) Luckily, your clients can create a free Dropbox basic account. Can clients have full edit access to a shared Dropbox folder without ...