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MynameisNoneofyourbusiness
10 months agoNew member | Level 1
Dropbox says that my storage is almost full but I don't have enough files to reach capacity
Hi.
I have files stored in my Dropbox, but the majority of them have files sizes in KB and MB. I don't see how this all equals 1.97 GB of information. I have looked through the forum to see how t...
- 10 months ago
Hi Rich,
Thanks for jumping into the thread. I did some thinking, and I think that I came up with a solution for the issue...well, kinda. I discovered what is going on. I took a look at my local Dbox folder that is on the H/D of my computer. Unlike the Dbox page, I went into it and was able to see the file sizes of all the folders, etc. (This online page really puts the user at a disadvantage b/c it isn't intuitive and doesn't allow you to see what you need to see without really digging into it...seems like the devs are are trying to frustrate the user into upgrading to a plan that costs money because they can't get the necessary information about their memory usage in order to troubleshoot.) Any way, I discovered that the culprit was my Apps folder. It is the drain on the memory allocation. So I am determining what I can delete and what I can't. Hopefully this will get me to where I need to be.
Rich
Super User II
10 months agoMynameisNoneofyourbusiness wrote:Even if you combined all of the file sizes, they still don't combine to anything close to what Dbox is saying that is used up.
Take a screenshot of your usage as shown on your Plan page and post it here. It should look like this:
MynameisNoneofyourbusiness
10 months agoNew member | Level 1
Hi Rich,
Thanks for jumping into the thread. I did some thinking, and I think that I came up with a solution for the issue...well, kinda. I discovered what is going on. I took a look at my local Dbox folder that is on the H/D of my computer. Unlike the Dbox page, I went into it and was able to see the file sizes of all the folders, etc. (This online page really puts the user at a disadvantage b/c it isn't intuitive and doesn't allow you to see what you need to see without really digging into it...seems like the devs are are trying to frustrate the user into upgrading to a plan that costs money because they can't get the necessary information about their memory usage in order to troubleshoot.) Any way, I discovered that the culprit was my Apps folder. It is the drain on the memory allocation. So I am determining what I can delete and what I can't. Hopefully this will get me to where I need to be.
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