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Public links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic.
I got a notice last week saying my public links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic. I looked at links, and I don't have very many - and haven't added any new ones in a long time.
I clicked the link to remove the suspension and it worked. Then I got the same message again and the link now won't let me reset it. I don't even know what is causing the excessive traffic.
I looked in my shared folders and most that are shared are small. There are some large folders that were shared with me, but they say "You haven't joined this folder."
Any idea how I can find the source, and get this suspension removed?
Paul
Thanks for the screenshot! As a test, can you please go to your Dropbox account now and let me know if you’re still getting an error? You can attempt to share one of your folders, for example, to test this out.
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- Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Welcome to our Community, enerjazz! Hope you’re doing well.
Your Dropbox account’s sharing activity can be interrupted indeed, if you exceed your daily bandwidth limit, as outlined here.
While it's not possible to pinpoint exactly which folder/file caused this exactly, could one of the bullet points mentioned in the Help Center article above apply in your case, as well?
If you're still getting the same error now, can you please send me a screenshot of it?
Keep me posted.
Here's the email. When I click the reset link I get the second screenshot.
- Nancy
Thanks for the screenshot! As a test, can you please go to your Dropbox account now and let me know if you’re still getting an error? You can attempt to share one of your folders, for example, to test this out.
I just shared a small folder, and it seems to be working again. Thanks.
- Theresa
Community Manager
Hi enerjazz and welcome to the Dropbox Community 🤗.
I am glad to see that you are now able to share files and folders once again.
I’m Theresa, and you’ll probably see me around the Community 👩💻. I love connecting with our members and learning all about the creative ways they use Dropbox every day 💙.
If you’re up for sharing, I’d love to hear how you use Dropbox💡. You might even inspire some handy tips for others or spark ideas we can pass along to our internal team. 🤗
I hope to speak to you soon,
T 😺 (Dropbox Community Manager)
Hi there, I'm having the same issue. It allowed me to get back into sharing yesterday and now today it said the same thing that I've exceeded my limit as far as the amount of space that I have. It's telling me that I'm using 34 gigs and I'm only currently using nine. I've stop sharing with everyone so I don't understand what the issue is. Thanks for any help.
Hi Jay, my friend was trying to upload a big file, but was unable to so that might explain it where it was going over the limit and then it kicked it back out. But that was two days ago. However, his friend then sent me the file from his dropbox today and I did a direct download to my external hard drive. Could it have been that?
