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orbitmic
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago
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usage changes withought my adding any file

Hi everyone, I'm new here so apologies if my question is silly but I tried to find the answer with the search and could not find it.   I have a basic account with 15.75GB space. I received message...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    4 years ago
    orbitmic wrote:

    The next day, I received a message saying that my dropbox was almost full and to my surprise, when I went to my account, usage had gone back up to about 14GB without my saving anything new.

    You likely have the backup feature enabled. Check your Backups page.

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Rich
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4 years ago
orbitmic wrote:

The next day, I received a message saying that my dropbox was almost full and to my surprise, when I went to my account, usage had gone back up to about 14GB without my saving anything new.

You likely have the backup feature enabled. Check your Backups page.

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