[Hidden-tech] drop box and google drive/ file stream filling up MacBook air storage

Rich Roth rich at on-the-net.com
Fri May 3 01:48:28 UTC 2019


Under the preferences there is a sync menu - use 'selective sync' to get 
only the directories on your laptop you want.
That's for Dropbox

On 5/2/2019 7:37 PM, Ira Bryck via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>
> *I use dropbox (subscribe to 1tb) and google drive (now called file 
> stream; unlimited storage, as a UMass employee/retired) and don’t 
> understand if it’s so that all those files online are backed up on my 
> laptop, by default, which then fills up my storage on the laptop, when 
> what I meant to do was keep all that online and NOT fill up my computer*
>
> **
>
> *Is there a way to turn off, in each of those, the laptop storage and 
> just have it online?*
>
> **
>
> *Thanks*
>
> **
>
> *Ira Bryck*
>
>
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