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HankD1
New member | Level 2
7 months ago
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Why has my referral quota been removed, and I'm down to 2 GB only?

My account HAD 7.5 GB of personal referral space and 2.5 GB of other referral space, for a total of 12 GB.  All the extra space is gone now?  I'm down to 2GB?  Why?  I'm getting Can't Sync messages, ...
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  • HankD1's avatar
    HankD1
    7 months ago

    Under 10 GB now, so all is good, thanks!

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HankD1
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

And now, as I'm PERMANENTLY deleting things, the storage is going up.

huh?

 

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    7 months ago
    HankD1 wrote:

    And now, as I'm PERMANENTLY deleting things, the storage is going up.

    For future reference, you don't need to permanently delete files. Deleting them is enough to reclaim that space. Permanently deleting a file will have no effect on your storage space.

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