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cooperp
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Double-dipping on charges by Dropbox or simply bad sharing practices?

So, I have a Dropbox account, Basic plan.  To be transparent, my personal storage is OneDrive based, but a registered Australian community charity I'm involved with uses Dropbox for some functions.  ...
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    Mark
    2 years ago

    Hi cooperp 

     

    You are right in your assumption that anything in your Dropbox uses your space, so, yes, if you need access to shared folders with read/write access then you need enough space to host and store that. There is no option to change that. 

     

    If you dont need read/write access you can ask for a shared link instead. 

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Mark
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Hi cooperp 

 

You are right in your assumption that anything in your Dropbox uses your space, so, yes, if you need access to shared folders with read/write access then you need enough space to host and store that. There is no option to change that. 

 

If you dont need read/write access you can ask for a shared link instead. 

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cooperp
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply.  I actually do not need write, only read, so I'll let the 'administrators' know.  Fantastic.

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