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Show the space occupied by a folder an its subfolders
I was very surprised to find that this is apparently not possible, neither in the Android app, nor in the Web interface: when showing information about a subfolder, it is not possible to see how mach space is occupied by that folder.
This looks like absolutely essential basic functionality to me for at least two reasons:
1) since I pay for a certain amount of total space, it is absolutely essential for me to know which of my folders contribute how much to the space needed
2) if I want to sync a folder to my computer which has perhaps limited available space, I need to know if the space required by the synced folder is even available on that computer
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- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi JoPe, thanks for messaging the Community!
You can calculate the folder size by following these steps on the site.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Why does it have to be so complicated and hard to discover? Why not have the option right in the three dots menu?
Also that sequence of steps does not work in the Android app.
Finally it would also be useful to be able to use the checkbox to mark several or all folders and then have the option to calculate their sizes in one gone, instead of having to do it for each folder separately, but this does not seem to be possible either.
