Space Issue - Dropbox & BoxCryptor - Boxcryptor Community

Space Issue - Dropbox & BoxCryptor

leilajake

I am fairly new to BoxCryptor so not sure how to correct my problem.
I have a Dropbox Account with almost 300gb of files in it.
I am using BoxCryptor to encrypt 3 folders or approx 50gb of files within my Dropbox folder.
Issue is that it seems that my BoxCryptor has duplicated the entire Dropbox account on my 1TB drive so now l am running low on disk space.
How can l get BoxCrypter to only contain Enrypted folders and files.
Thanks in Advance

Leilajake

JRMBXL

I am also very interested in an answer. Does the virtual disk X consume all this space ?

Merci JRM

Florian

Hi leilajake, hi JRMBXL,

The Boxcryptor Drive does NOT consume any space, as it is purely virtual.

The Space indicator of the drive shows basically the Space combined of all drives that have a Boxcryptor location on it:

Say you have 3 Hard Drives C: (with 100 GB space, 30 GB free), D: (with 500 GB space, 100 GB free) and E:(1000 GB space, 400 GB free).

On C: you have OneDrive and Dropbox enabled as a Boxcryptor location, on D: you have a "non-synced" private folder that is added as a Boxcryptor location, too.

The X: Drive will then show 600 GB space, where 130 GB is free.

One thing to mention is that when having "Recycle Bin" support enabled, all your files that are moved to the recycle bin will be stored in the Boxcryptor application folder.
If you never clear your recycle bin, this may result in extra space consumption of the hard drive that holds your User Data folder.

Best regards,
Florian

JRMBXL

Thanks for your answer about the virtual disk.