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Marshal mellow
Collaborator | Level 8
1 year ago

Re: I can't access my photos, as I'm being asked to upgrade my Dropbox account.

Dear Nancy, sorry I have nothing but problems, but, I decided to crop a photo and I saved it. Now it just spins round and round non stop and whatever I push doesn't stop it. Any ideas?

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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    1 year ago

    Hey Marshal mellow, I'm glad to see that you were able to see and access your photos in your account.

     

    Regarding your account being full, is it possible that you have any shared folders or backups taking your space?

     

    You can see your shared folders here and your backups page here.

  • Marshal mellow's avatar
    Marshal mellow
    Collaborator | Level 8
    1 year ago

    Dear Hannah, thank you for your reply.

     

    I clicked shared files and it says 335 MB which amazes me since I removed so many photos. At any rate, I clicked Backup and it says "you've used up your 3.25 GB of storage space. My son's sports, 2MB and you're asking me for 1500yen(we live in Japan) a month for the "free" account I got years ago. I also have a problem which may be a bit unusual. First, I would like to empty my account and put my data on a thumb drive Oddly, Because my PC is so old, I suppose, I'm not able to insert a thumb drive and a wireless USB adapter at the same time because there's no space and it seems I need them both in at the same time. Are  you as confused as I am?  I don't want to be paying for this for the rest of my life but I don't dare close my account because by reading the small print it says that closing your account you will lose all of your data. I'm scared to death of losing everything. My wife and I are on Social Security and certainly cannot afford to pay 1500yen a month. Maybe not, but it seems like I've made a mess.

     

    Thank you Hannah for reading all this

     

  • Marshal mellow's avatar
    Marshal mellow
    Collaborator | Level 8
    1 year ago
    Dear Hannah,
    It's possible that I may be driving everyone crazy for no good reason. I have a son who is certainly smarter than me and he has suggested that I may have opened two accounts? Does that make sense as to solving all my problems 😕?
  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    1 year ago

    Hey again, Marshal mellow!

     

    The issue here is that your account is full, correct?

     

    So, what we need to do is find out what's causing your account to be full.

     

    You mentioned that you checked your backups page, right? Does it show you any files there, that might be taking up your space?

  • Marshal mellow's avatar
    Marshal mellow
    Collaborator | Level 8
    1 year ago
    Thank you Hannah but I don't know what the backups page is
  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    1 year ago

    Your backups page is the page that lists the files and folders you've backed up to Dropbox Marshal mellow 

     

    Do you see anything there? 

  • Marshal mellow's avatar
    Marshal mellow
    Collaborator | Level 8
    1 year ago

    Different subject but I just cropped a photo as it said it was saving it it froze and now I can't get into any photos. Please 🙏 help

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
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    1 year ago

    Hi again, Marshal mellow! Are you still having trouble with this? Can you access your photos via another browser, as a test?

  • Marshal mellow's avatar
    Marshal mellow
    Collaborator | Level 8
    1 year ago

    I was in a total panic as you might guess. I was able to access them using my phone but I don't know about my PC because I don't have access to it now. I assume it will be okay but I'll see tomorrow. Thanks 🙏 

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