Free up space from Drime Desktop

In recent versions of Drime Desktop for Windows, Preferences > Storage has a File management section: See what takes room and get it back. Each row shows how much space it takes and how many items it holds.

#Open File management

1. Open the Drime window from the notification area, then Preferences > Storage.

2. Scroll to File management.

While Drime works on a row, its button reads Working....

#Rescued files

Rescued files (local) are Files Drime kept on this computer instead of deleting them, because they were not on Drime or no longer matched what is. For example, when you remove a folder from the Drive folder selection, files not yet uploaded go there instead of being deleted. See Choose which folders sync to your computer.

They are in a folder named Drime Rescue Folder, at the root of your Drime folder and of each folder you link on the Folder sync page.

• To delete them, click Clear, then confirm Delete the rescued files?. These files are not on Drime, so this computer is the only place that has them: they go to the Windows Recycle Bin, where you can still get them back.

• To delete old ones automatically, turn on Delete files older than and set a number of days, from 1 to 365. It is off by default and set to 30 days.

When there is nothing to clear, the row reads Nothing kept.

#File versions

File versions are the Previous versions of your files, kept on Drime.

• The switch turns file versioning on or off for your account. It is the same setting as on the web. See How file versions work.

• To delete them, click Clear, then confirm Delete all previous versions?. Your files keep their current version. Every earlier version is deleted from Drime and can't be restored.

#Drime trash

Drime trash holds Deleted files that still use your Drime space.

To delete them for good, click Empty, then confirm Empty the Drime trash?. Everything in the trash is deleted and can't be restored, deleted backups included. To keep something, restore it first: see Restore deleted files from the Trash.

#Deleted backups

Deleted backups appears only when the trash holds files from a computer backup. The web keeps them on their own tab, so they don't show up in ordinary listings.

To delete only these, click Clear, then confirm Delete these backup files for good?. They leave the trash for good and can't be restored. The rest of your trash is untouched.

#If it doesn't work

#Other ways to save space

• Keep files online-only on this computer, with Manage hard drive space on the same page: see Online-only and offline files.

• Keep some Drime folders off this computer: see Choose which folders sync to your computer.

• See and free up your Drime storage on the web: see Check and free up storage space.