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Floche's avatar
Floche
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Difference between the storage quantity on my mobile and on my computer

Hi, I just made room on my account storage on my computer. It shows 1,6 Go filled up. But when I access it from my phone, it shows 6,2Go filled up and tells me my account is too full (I have the free...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    2 years ago

    Hmm, in this case, it seems that you enabled our backup feature for that drive.

     

    Perhaps you agreed to it by accident, the last time you plugged the drive in to your computer.

     

    But now that you deleted the backup, it will no longer take up space in your Dropbox, so you are good to go!

Floche's avatar
Floche
Explorer | Level 4
Hi,
There was an hard-drive in the back up menu... it wasn't my intention, I deleted. Now the storage came back to a normal size.
Why is the hard-drive taking up space on Dropbox storage ?
I just wanted to copy the file from Dropbox to my hard-drive...
Hannah's avatar
Hannah
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
2 years ago

Hmm, in this case, it seems that you enabled our backup feature for that drive.

 

Perhaps you agreed to it by accident, the last time you plugged the drive in to your computer.

 

But now that you deleted the backup, it will no longer take up space in your Dropbox, so you are good to go!

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