Files on your storage show in Finder without taking space on your Mac. Syncophant downloads a file when you open it, and may remove that download later to stay under its space limit. This guide shows how to control that.

Keep a file or folder on this Mac

Right-click it in Finder and choose Keep Downloaded. Its status changes to Kept on this Mac.

Kept files are never removed to save space. For a folder, everything inside it is kept, including files added later.

To undo it, right-click and choose Stop Keeping Downloaded.

Free up space now

Right-click a file or folder in Finder and choose Remove Download. The file stays on your storage and in Finder; only the copy on your Mac goes. Open it again to download it.

Set the space limit

Open Settings › Transfers.
Under Space on this Mac, drag the slider. The limit applies to each storage. The default is 5 GB.
Choose Apply Limit Now to remove recently opened files above the limit straight away.

Syncophant never removes a file to save space if it is kept, still uploading, changed on this Mac and not yet uploaded, or in a state it can’t be sure about. Those files stay even when the total goes over the limit.