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T Ashby
New member | Level 2
2 months ago
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I'm trying to upload files via the desktop app, but I'm being told there's not enough space.

I have been on Dropbox for years. In the old days, they had onboarding "tasks" you could perform to get extra free space. I did some of those. So my limits are?/show as different from a typical b...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    2 months ago
    T Ashby wrote:

    But it does say I have 1.5 gigabytes of free space.

    If the file was over 1.5gb then it would fail. 

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T Ashby
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

Yeah.

Sorry about posting this.

I went back and looked at the total size of the upload. It is over my larger limit.

I had added some books and was trying to move them around. It just never occurred to me they were so large.

Part of the confusion was that the application reported that I was over the 2 GB limit. and I focused on that, instead of double checking my upload.

Thank you all for the help!

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