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TSharp440's avatar
TSharp440
New member | Level 1
2 months ago

I have 4TB of total space on my Dropbox account, but it says I'm going over-quota.

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 h...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 months ago
    TSharp440 wrote:

    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.

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TSharp440
New member | Level 1
2 months ago

Oh yes,  of course....     thanks,  I see it now,  I have only 1tb in this new PC,

I'll get another internal drive for this PC then try again,

 

Thanks so much

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