How to leave a shared folder I have deleted?

Yeah, shared folders can be tricky — leaving them isn’t the same as deleting, so it’d be good if Dropbox made that option clearer.

Thank you. That resolved my issue. I was misled by the lag time between leaving folders and when the space actually becomes available.  

Thank you.  The files shown in 'All Files' are not enough to equal the 5.7GB total.  Is it true that deleted folders can still take up space if I didn't leave them before deleting them?  

Hey djrdaniel​, let's see what we can find about this together. 

Where do you see that these folders still take up space in your account? 

Would you mind clarifying what your account's plan page reports? If you have any screenshots of said page, along with what you see when visiting your sharing page, I'd appreciate the visual.

Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there. 

You can go to http://www.dropbox.com/share and leave via there. 

Thank you. The problem I'm having is that I can no longer see the folders I've deleted, even though they're still taking up storage space.  How can I leave a folder that has been deleted but is no longer in my 'deleted files'? How can I free up that space? 

djrdaniel wrote:

But since I can no longer see them in my 'deleted files', how do I leave them?

Refer to the instructions for how to permanently leave a folder on the following help article:

• https://help.dropbox.com/share/leave-shared-folder