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decaf
2 months agoNew member | Level 2
Email that "your Dropbox account is over capacity" but I've made no changes?
Received an email prompting to upgrade my account today -- "⚠ Immediate action advised: [name], your Dropbox account is over capacity" When I log in I do see it showing almost 300GB used of my 5....
- 2 months ago
Looks like a folder has accidentally been dropped in from your computer (Music? Movies?) that could be taking up a lot of space - what is www.dropbox.com/events showing?
Mark
Super User II
Looks like a folder has accidentally been dropped in from your computer (Music? Movies?) that could be taking up a lot of space - what is www.dropbox.com/events showing?
decaf
2 months agoNew member | Level 2
This is so odd. Downloaded the sync client to get a view of actual file sizes. "Photos" seems to be the culprit. But it appears that it's not new; going back in my email I downgraded from Plus in 2018 and this is the first email I've gotten telling me I'm over my limit since.
The latest event listed on www.dropbox.com/events is 7/12 in a shared folder
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