The storage on your internal drive is unchanged. On a mac you can “switch users” so that this account on your MacBook stays logged in and keeps syncing your Dropbox.
(you could even give it a username of “Dropbox”. Create a new user account on your MacBook or laptop.The only solution that actually does work: Some third-party tool that assures you it will be around forever.I’m not going to bother providing links to examples. The solutions that DON’T work, or that I don’t want to use: You have this shiny external hard drive that could hold your entire Dropbox account with space left over.You have a MacBook or PC with a hard drive that isn’t big enough for your entire Dropbox account.