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JBAlt
Explorer | Level 3
22 hours ago

I keep getting messages saying I'm out of storage, but my files aren't that large.

I keep getting messages that I am out of storage, but when I look at my files, they represent less than half of my limit (if I include the entirety of shared files). I have no backups that I'm aware ...
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JBAlt
Explorer | Level 3
20 hours ago

 

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Nancy
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3 hours ago

Hey JBAlt! Based on your last screenshot, it looks like the majority of your Dropbox space is used by regular files indeed (that would be the files/folders you’ve saved under your All files page here). 

In case you don’t need some of these files, can you try to delete a couple (as a test), and let me know if that makes a difference in the space usage you see here?

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