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Why is my account out of space?
As seems to be the case these days with many "Apps" they want you to buy their product but don't deliver support and want to rely on "Communities". In other words free assistance from other users whi...
Hi adrian29630, you can leave the shared folder from your account, or remove your access to it completely, by following these steps.
It won't affect other users who are currently members of the shared folder.
Rich
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Harry Molyneux wrote:
It’s not really their own unique copy, it’s the exact same folder.
No, it's a unique copy for each user. You can even rename and move the shared folder elsewhere in your account, and it won't affect the other members while still syncing with their copies of the folder.
Sure, there's Dropbox's deduplication magic happening in the background so each unique file chunk (remember, files are stored in chunks, not complete files) is not duplicated on the back-end servers, but each user does have their own unique copy of the files in their account. If I make a change in a folder that is shared with me, that change is not seen instantly for all other members, which it would if I was editing the same copy as theirs. That edited file is synced to all of the other members of the share.
What benefit is there to having it sync not in real time? And the ability rename a folder doesn’t justify having to pay for the pricing. You could just create a shortcut to it and rename is whatever you like in another app like Google Drive.
Why are you defending this so adamantly? Do you work for Drop Box?
Why are you defending this so adamantly? Do you work for Drop Box?
- Rich
Harry Molyneux wrote:
What benefit is there to having it sync not in real time?It does sync in real-time but it's not instantaneous like it would be if it were just one folder that everyone could see. It takes time, albeit a very short amount of time, to sync from one location to the other.
Why are you defending this so adamantly? Do you work for Drop Box?I'm not defending anything. I'm providing information on how (and why) it works the way it does. No, I don't work for Dropbox. I'm a user, just like you.
