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JLL7033
New member | Level 2
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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JLL7033
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

That was useful, it shows that it is backing up something called Christmas that is 4.x GB, I have no idea where that would have come from.  Is there somewhere that shows where it is backing the files up form?  I am guessing it was from an external drive, I will try deleting it.  Thanks, I had not found that backups area online, the backups I saw matched my PC dropbox.  Without it showing in dropbox, how would I have even accessed that data?

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Nancy
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6 months ago

Hi from me as well, JLL7033! Can you send me a screenshot of your Backups page perhaps? 

Other than that, you can manually find the Backups page by going to www.dropbox.com and clicking on the little square icon at the top right corner of your page (the one that’s right next to your search bar). After that, you can select “Backup” from the menu.

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