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katmoody's avatar
katmoody
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

Accessing shared folders counts against my Dropbox quota?

I'm trying to understand this. I'm helping a friend with a project and she shared a few folders with me. Other than the files she shared with me, I had hardly anything else in my Dropbox. I deleted e...
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Dell_Dropbox
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6 months ago

To piggyback off what Mark said, here are the instructions for your friend to create a read-only Shared Link to the files you need to access. They will not count toward your quota

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