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OldTimeMusician
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3 years ago

Confused with Dropbox. Can you clarify some things about syncing, storage and accessing my account?

I am new to Dropbox as of yesterday. Although reasonably tech savvy with various software, I am getting confused. None of the videos on YouTube explain in quite the right way. I have a Dropbox acco...
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Mark
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3 years ago

Hi OldTimeMusician 

 

Welcome!

 

Is it Dropbox or your computer complaining it is full? My suspicions are that it is the computer. Dropbox is a folder on your machine like any other - and so crucially it uses up space (unless its told not to AFTER files have uploaded!). However, that means if you have data elsewhere on a machine and copy it to Dropbox it could take up 2x the volume of data on the drive. 

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