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kathybccs
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2 years ago
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Stopped syncing as I've used all of my storage space

I am a part of a group and I do not 'own' my dropbox account.  But I am getting messages saying my account has stopped synching and I have used well over my allowed amount of storage and am being enc...
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    Mark
    2 years ago

    Dropbox uses up the space of all people within it who have files on an account, so, if you dont pay then your quota will be 2gb (or thereabouts) and so you need to leave some shares, delete files (careful though as if in a share it will delete them for everybody) or get more space via an upgrade. 

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Mark
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2 years ago

Dropbox uses up the space of all people within it who have files on an account, so, if you dont pay then your quota will be 2gb (or thereabouts) and so you need to leave some shares, delete files (careful though as if in a share it will delete them for everybody) or get more space via an upgrade. 

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kathybccs
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Thank you Mark.  That makes sense!

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