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piegem
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Storage full?

This is what I use: Dropbox Used Disk Space: Size: 79,1 MB (82.960.660 bytes) Size on disk: 86,9 MB (91.201.536 bytes) Contains: 3.499 Files, 16 Folders   This is what Dropbox says: Using ...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    piegem wrote:

    Using 7.59 GB of 5.5 GB storage ... How is it possible with only using less then 90 MB?

    Have you checked your backups page?

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Rich
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piegem wrote:

Using 7.59 GB of 5.5 GB storage ... How is it possible with only using less then 90 MB?

Have you checked your backups page?

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piegem
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Thanks Rich, deleting the 7.5GB backup file did the trick!
Thanks!
I never knew I was backing something up to Dropbox.

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