Comments on: Large Dropbox Cache? http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/ A Technology Crow in search of Bright Shiny Objects Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:14:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/#comment-130077 Chris Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:48:46 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2268#comment-130077 Ran into this problem this morning. My cache was reasonably large (~9 GB), but that's fine with me. The main problem was that, by default, the cache is put on the C:, which in my case was a small partition just designed to hold the OS and any really essential programs. For anyone having this problem, there are two work-arounds (sorry, both only for Windows...you're on your own in Linux/Mac): http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/DropboxDataWrapper http://www.torgorama.com/2009/11/09/you-learn-something-new-every-day/ I used the second (and it was really easy) because it didn't require changing anything native to Dropbox. Ran into this problem this morning. My cache was reasonably large (~9 GB), but that’s fine with me. The main problem was that, by default, the cache is put on the C:, which in my case was a small partition just designed to hold the OS and any really essential programs. For anyone having this problem, there are two work-arounds (sorry, both only for Windows…you’re on your own in Linux/Mac):
http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/DropboxDataWrapper
http://www.torgorama.com/2009/11/09/you-learn-something-new-every-day/

I used the second (and it was really easy) because it didn’t require changing anything native to Dropbox.

]]> By: mkid http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/#comment-128920 mkid Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:38:55 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2268#comment-128920 70Gigs. Wife's computer been acting up so have been removing the dropbox, relocating to new computers, new drives on the same computer, etc, etc. http://img.skitch.com/20091208-j212tk8ni7mdncr5xixamtehrc.jpg Still... 70 gigs... 70Gigs. Wife’s computer been acting up so have been removing the dropbox, relocating to new computers, new drives on the same computer, etc, etc.

http://img.skitch.com/20091208-j212tk8ni7mdncr5xixamtehrc.jpg

Still… 70 gigs…

]]> By: Chris http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/#comment-123609 Chris Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:11:35 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2268#comment-123609 You'll be glad to hear that Dropbox is changing to a 30 day retention on changes... hopefully that'll avoid such huge caches in the future! You’ll be glad to hear that Dropbox is changing to a 30 day retention on changes… hopefully that’ll avoid such huge caches in the future!

]]> By: Ken http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/#comment-123608 Ken Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:36:16 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2268#comment-123608 I'm the current record holder at 32.3 gigs. Deleting now, with fingers crossed. I’m the current record holder at 32.3 gigs. Deleting now, with fingers crossed.

]]> By: James http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/#comment-105942 James Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:29:07 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2268#comment-105942 25.5 gig. OUCH! DELETED! 25.5 gig.

OUCH!
DELETED!

]]> By: J http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/#comment-92994 J Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:53:19 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2268#comment-92994 i use dropbox on my mac and had 18.9 gb of cache!!! i deleted it i use dropbox on my mac and had 18.9 gb of cache!!!
i deleted it

]]> By: Chris http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/09/13/large-dropbox-cache/#comment-74618 Chris Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:27:21 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2268#comment-74618 12 GB!! Wow. And hey, for anyone running DropBox with Linux, your cache is under your ~you/.dropbox/cache 12 GB!! Wow.

And hey, for anyone running DropBox with Linux, your cache is under your ~you/.dropbox/cache

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