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Notice of full storage
Hello. My Dropbox is currently notifying me that my Dropbox is full when it is actively not. I made a mistake of backing up a flash drive, which I deleted from my computer, but ever since the app re...
Argirisdev wrote:
My Dropbox is currently notifying me that my Dropbox is full when it is actively not. I made a mistake of backing up a flash drive, which I deleted from my computer ...
Have you checked your Backups page?
Rich
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Argirisdev wrote:
My Dropbox is currently notifying me that my Dropbox is full when it is actively not. I made a mistake of backing up a flash drive, which I deleted from my computer ...
Have you checked your Backups page?
I completely forgot about that section, thank you for your help!
I have a shared folder and a remote user is getting the FULL STORAGE message. There is plenty of space in my Dropbox account.
- Rich
krisD wrote:
I have a shared folder and a remote user is getting the FULL STORAGE message. There is plenty of space in my Dropbox account.
Other users don't get access to the space in your account. If they're a member of a shared folder, they need to have enough space available in their account to hold the shared folder. They get their own copy of the folder in their account, and that copy syncs with your copy.
- Ok, thank you!!!
So If fellow collaborators don’t have Dropbox the workaround is request for files?
Why is this so dang hidden? I had the same issue, glad it's fixed, but having to hunt and search for files that are taking space is absurd.
where is backups page and why and what to do about it?
Thank you for posting this and placing the link
super helpful
