Running out of local space; how to delete files on my computer without deleting encrypted cloud files?

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just to ensure you know a certain fact about Cryptomator, i’ll link a topic here:

[Desktop] Is my data stored locally unencrypted by Cryptomator?

tl;dr No. Longer Answer There are several posts about optimizing storage when using Cryptomator or concerns about seeing your data unencrypted in the systems default file browser. To address these questions and concerns, we want to share a more hidden fact about Cryptomator. Cryptomator never stores data inside a vault unencrypted.* It only decrypts on-the-fly, i.e. only on request. As soon as the data is moved into your vault, on your hard drive/cloud storage only the encrypted data is sto…