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WJ11's avatar
WJ11
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Erroneous "Your Dropbox is full" message

Dropbox is failing to sync even though my storage usage is far below the 2 GB of Basic. In fact my usage is well below 1 GB (about 0.8 MB to be specific).

  • We can confirm that the most recent releases of Dropbox should have resolved this issue. Users affected by this issue were unable to see all of the backups on their account. This meant that when they believe they deleted some or all of their files, there could still be backups taking up space on their account. This should no longer be affecting users who should be able to see all of their backups.  

     

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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hey WJ11, thanks for reaching out to our Community.

     

    Can you please check your plan tab here, to see what your account is reporting about how much space you're using?

     

    Where are you seeing the "your Dropbox is full" message? On your Dropbox desktop app?

     

    Would you be able to send me a screenshot of that message?

     

    Thanks in advance!

    • WJ11's avatar
      WJ11
      New member | Level 2

      Copied directly from the Plan tab: "Using 758.2 MB of 2.25 GB"

       

      I do not have a screen shot of the error message.

    • WJ11's avatar
      WJ11
      New member | Level 2

      Message shows at top of https://www.dropbox.com/home and also individual folders. Currently it is not showing in either one of those, but that's been the pattern for some time now. The message may go away fleetingly, but reappears when content (a file) is uploaded to a shared folder, and the file fails to sync.

      Please note: the additional (uploaded) files that are causing that to happen are few in number and are very small files of between 140 and 150 KB — KB, not MB or GB — in size.

       

       

      • Hannah's avatar
        Hannah
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Thanks for the update here, WJ11.

         

        Could it be possible to grab a screenshot of that the next time it happens?

         

        And you can send it to us here, so we can investigate this further.

         

        I would really appreciate it!

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