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Dropbox full because of shared folder
Hi, i have a dropbox account and the free space that i have is full because of the files inside the shared folder that i have with some friends.
Is there a way to avoid that the shared folder that ...
Your English is very good Michele - well done!
And no, if you need read write access to that folder if will use your quota. If you just need read only access leave the share and ask the other person sends you a read only Shared link.
You can LEAVE and REJOIN a shared folder when ever you like.
So one method of getting space is to LEAVE the shared folder. And REJOIN it when you need it.
If you ONLY need some files from the shared folder and ONLY at some times, I would additionally ask the owner of the shared folder for a LINK to it, in that way you can use the link to it and download via web the files you need when you need them.
Although I don't agree with Dropbox, and this is the primary reason I won't spring for Pro, I understand why they did this.
It's simple, really. Say, someone creates 10 free accounts. 10 x 2GB = 20GB. Now, that person, from each account shares a folder with his main account. That person just got more, free, space.
I agree with the people who have posted here. I don't understand why dropbox charges me for data that is in other people's account who have shared their folder with me. As a church we use dropbox to transfer files created at home to our church computers. This works well for large files ... then after we access and save the data saved to our church computers we clean out the dropbox. We recently were joined with another user that pays for larger data storage. Within minutes, because we have the limited free account our dropbox was full and we were unable to load anything more. We only needed to access a few of the files that were stored in the other person's shared folder. But dropbox said that data also belonged to our dropbox. Seems like double charging of data to me. So we had to create another email address and access this folder only via dropbox.com and not from the app on the computer.
