Disk full message appears when saving a document to DropBox

I have Dropbox dowloaded onto my computer.  When saving a document to Dropbox, a message appears saying it cannot sync with my computer as I do  not have enough space.  This does not bother me as I do not wish to have it sync with my devices as it is work related DropBox.  However, more recenlty, when saving the documents to DropBox, my computer is saying that it cannot save it (to the actual hard drive as well as DropBox, I assume) as my disk is full.
When I logged onto my laptop this monring, I also got a message that said my start up disk is full.  I have no idea what any of this means nor how to fix it.
Please help.

All of these message are saying the same thing: the disk in your computer is full. You must remove something or increase the size of the disk before you will be able to add anything more.

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