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kbdm
New member | Level 1
9 months ago
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out of space even after deleting files / folders

After deleting folders my storage space has not changed. This seems like a permanent issue on this forum and Dropbox appears to be intentionally making it hard to remove folders so people are forced...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    9 months ago
    kbdm wrote:

    This seems like a permanent issue on this forum and Dropbox appears to be intentionally making it hard to remove folders so people are forced to upgrade.

    It isnt. 

    Theres two reasons why - one you are on a Team and that take a few hours to update or two you haven't actually deleted everything back you have Backups set: www.dropbox.com/backups. 

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kbdm
New member | Level 1
9 months ago

It's a folder that's not mine was shared with many other individuals, all outside of my team

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