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emkcams
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Dropbox decreasing free subscription size

Just a note to the community concerning free expansions of the size of a free DropBox account.   I established a free account of size 2GB in 2012. Several years later, DropBox sent an email indic...
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tropology
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Likewise I had earned extensive space on the free tier through referrals and other promos that took me well over the 2GB basic space allocation.   It seems the system should honor those promotions and referral which grew their initial user base.

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Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
2 years ago

Dropbox doesnt remove space from people for referrals unless they have been known to abuse the system. Same for other space such as getting started etc. However, a lot of other quotas are time limited AND do not transfer between accounts if you have multiple ones. 

 

You can see whats happening to quota at www.dropbox.com/events

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