Can Storage Studio free the space the Dropbox app uses on my Mac?
Short answer: Not directly — macOS only lets an app free its own service's downloads. Right-click Dropbox files in Finder and choose Remove Download or Make online-only, or set Dropbox to keep new files online-only. They stay in your Dropbox.
Not directly. macOS only lets an app free the downloads of its own cloud service, so the Dropbox app's local copies are freed through Dropbox or Finder rather than by Storage Studio.
- In Finder, right-click files or folders in Dropbox and choose Remove Download (or Dropbox's own Make online-only).
- Or change the Dropbox app's settings so new files are online-only by default.
The files stay in your Dropbox and download again when you open them. To move Dropbox content off your Mac for good, you can also transfer it to an external drive with Storage Studio.