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Zelinko
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Deleted a shared folder but storage not freed up. Why?

I deleted a shared folder (I was the owner of the folder and thus sharer)  a while back (the deleted files area is empty) but only recently realized it's counting that folder and the content of it ag...
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Mark
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2 years ago

Deleted files do not use up the space on your account. So as long as the file is not showing at www.dropbox.com/home it isnt in the account and isnt using quota.

 

What you may have done though is set up Backups: www.dropbox.com/backups which use quota

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