You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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RyanH1
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

I installed Dropbox on my second computer and my used Dropbox space doubled

I have Dropbox Basic, connected to just one device. There was 1.3 GB of space used in my Dropbox account.   I got a new computer, installed Dropbox there. Now there is 2.6 GB of space used in my ...
  • Hannah's avatar
    3 years ago

    Hey RyanH1, welcome aboard the Dropbox Community.

     

    It sounds like you've enabled the backup feature on your computers. This will add and backup your desktop files to Dropbox, thus take up your space.

     

    If you want, you can disable this feature and move your files back to their original locations.

     

    Let me know how it goes.