[Originally Posted to Tumblr. ]
I love DropBox… But it’s not perfect…
Over the last couple of days, one of my machines has been having trouble keeping in sync… The trouble is limited disk space… So, I went looking for where this disk space was being taken up, and DropBox was the culprit…
Whenever a file changes on one of your other linked machines, DropBox grabs the latest copy (as it should), but it moves and renames the current copy to a .dropbox.cache folder. It stays there for up to three days.
To solve the problem, a little batch file…
@echo off taskkill /f /im Dropbox.exe /t del /s /f /q D:Dropbox.dropbox.cache* start “” “%APPDATA%DropboxbinDropbox.exe” exit
You’ll have to adjust the D:Dropbox path to match the location of your Dropbox.
For now, I’m just running as needed. But I am considering putting into a scheduled task.
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