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NathanHi
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Unusual data/bandwidth usage and storage

We currently have two laptops running Dropbox and sharing the same folder.    The first laptop is a Mac running Monterey 12.4. This computer shows the shared file as being 60.15gb and using 3.6% ...
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Storage space
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Thanks for this info, Nathan!

 

Does updating the Dropbox app on the Windows computer to the most recent version help in any way?

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NathanHi
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

We will try updating, however the app was only installed on the windows computer 10 days ago

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