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MattKauf's avatar
MattKauf
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Sharing files from a friend is filling my DropBox account! How do I stop that?

A friend of mine is collecting a series of lectures, as audio files.  He's asked me to listen and then have a discussion with him about each file.  I just got a notice from DropBox that I'm running o...
  • Mark's avatar
    3 years ago

    Because you are in a shared folder. Shared folders use up everybodys quota. 

     

    If you need just access to listen to them ask him to send you a shared link instead. 

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