My dropbox say I have low disk space and won't sync but I have still 25Gb free space

Hello everyone, I have the same problem, I can't accept a folder invitation even though  I have plenty space, I deleted everything on my dropbox. It´s frustrating

Ask the owner of the shared folder how big it is. If Dropbox is telling you that you can't accept it, then it is larger than the amount of available space you have in your account.

Pro user, 84 GB used of 2TB, but my desk top icon on the right hand corner says "my hard drive is full" Dropbox will no longer be able to sync. What's going on? I have a ton of space as my account settings show. I'm on both PC and Mac. I get this message on my PC only but don't see it on my Mac. What's going on? Can anyone illuminate me, please? THANKS.

Did you read the thread Natalia? 

You also need enough space on your hard drive to sync. So if you are only seeing it on the PC then the PC's hard drive is out of space but the Mac one isnt. 

Hey Mark, thanks for the reply. Yes, I did ... Y'all are tech buffs way beyond my level. My tech muscles look a bit more like peas rather than big guns :)

So, super basic then. I need to back up my hard drive on an external drive to make more room for the drive to sync with drop box?

Thx

Super helpful, thanks. So my assumption always was that Dropbox replaces the need to sync to external hard drives as they get lost between home offices and work office and/or other staff using them (I have a super small biz), but this is in fact not correct? I should still back up my PC files on an external drive, and only use select sync for Dropbox? Thx.

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