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PlusDavid
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3 days ago
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Don't Require Quota to Access Shared Folders

It makes absolutely no sense that I have to increase my quota in order to access a folder that someone is sharing with me. That quota is already being paid for by the other person. Did you let your CFO design the user experience, because this is absolutely NOT customer obsessed.

As a customer, I should be able to access folders and storage shared from another customer's account regardless of the amount of quota I have. Even if I have a free account, I should be able to access the content.

Requiring customers to have paid quota to a access a folder shared with them is certainly going to backfire from a net promoter score point of view. I, for one, will never be recommending that anyone use DropBox to share files until this functionality is fixed.

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    2 days ago
    PlusDavid wrote:

    As a customer, I should be able to access folders and storage shared from another customer's account ...

    That's not how it works. You're not accessing files in another person's account. When you accept a shared folder, you get your own copy of the folder in your account, and as anything in your account takes up space, you need to have enough quota to hold the folder you wish to add to your account.

    It's also a method of preventing abuse by stacking free accounts for unlimited space.