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Not Enough Space?
Hi, Wondering if someone can help me with this, I have a 3TB plan, and a 1TB add on, so 4TB in total, I'm only using about 1.2TB or less, I'm trying to transfer the contents of an external hard ...
I'm trying to transfer the contents of an external hard drive, about 1TB in total, but when I try it tells me that i don't have enough space, and need another 767GB,
Are you sure it's referring to the space available in your account, and not the space available on your local drive?
If you're copying the content of an external hard drive to your local Dropbox folder for it to sync, then you need enough space on your local drive to hold everything from the external drive.
Rich
Super User II
Super User III'm trying to transfer the contents of an external hard drive, about 1TB in total, but when I try it tells me that i don't have enough space, and need another 767GB,
Are you sure it's referring to the space available in your account, and not the space available on your local drive?
If you're copying the content of an external hard drive to your local Dropbox folder for it to sync, then you need enough space on your local drive to hold everything from the external drive.
