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JLL7033
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6 months ago

How can I find what's taking up extra space on my Dropbox account?

Dropbox says I am using over 5GB of space, Windows shows I am using 632MB for dropbox,  what is dropbox including that I cannot see?
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Rich
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6 months ago
JLL7033 wrote:

Dropbox says I am using over 5GB of space, Windows shows I am using 632MB for dropbox, what is dropbox including that I cannot see?

Checked your Backups page yet? If that doesn't solve it for you, take a screenshot of your usage as shown on your Plan page and post it here. It should look like this:

 

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