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msmorto92
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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My Dropbox folder takes up 1 TB of hard drive space when I only have 210 GB in my account

I have a 2T plan on my Mac the dropbox folder is taking up 1.02 T.   on line when I look at my account it says:   Regular files (208.31 GB)   Shared files (1.08 GB)   Unused space (1.8...
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  • msmorto92's avatar
    msmorto92
    4 years ago
    Thank you for the reply what am I reading wrong it says shared files 1.08 gig and 1.8 gig free?
Eamonn McDonagh's avatar
Eamonn McDonagh
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

All my own fault and all fixed now.  because DB normally works so well I hadn't logged into my dropbox page for like *years*  was thus a bit confused by what I was seeing. Thanks all and sorry to have wasted ppls time.

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Walter
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4 years ago

No worries Eamonn McDonagh - we're just glad to hear it's sorted now. 

 

See you around the Community and take care!

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