Cryptomator uses my hard drive space instead of dropbox

Hi.
Cryptomator desktop does not connect directly to any cloud storage. It relies on the cloud storage providers sync app to do the sync. And thus all encrypted files are created local. If you do not want to have the encrypted files local you have the following options:

  1. Configure your dropbox client to only stream needed files and clear not needed files from the local machine (aka files-on-demand)
  2. use 3rd party tools to access your vault directly online. for examle cyberduck
  3. use 3rd party tools that connect to your online storage and mounts them as local drive in your file explorer. For example rclone (I do not use it so I cannot make a recommendation)
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