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Box uses 3 times the storage on the local disk

  • September 19, 2026
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On my hard drive, Box occupies about the same amount of storage three times:

/.nofollow/Users/xx/Library/Application Support/Box/Box 47.41GB
/.nofollow/Users/xx/Library/Containers/com.box.desktop.boxfileprovider/Data 46.4GB
/.nofollow/Users/xx/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/Q Viktoria 47.86 GB

Is that normal?

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    • jakjang
    • Box Employee
    • September 22, 2026

    This shouldn’t be the case. When you check the storage consumed by the application (either in Storage if on macOS, or df -h), does it show Box as consuming ~141GB? Just to rule out that any of the other destinations are not double checked.

    Could you shed a little more light on your setup (OS, are files MFO’d a bunch, etc.)?

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