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Laguille's avatar
Laguille
New member | Level 2
12 days ago

I'm on a Family plan. One member is being asked to upgrade, in order to use a shared folder.

Hi, I have a 2 To Family plan, and one of my members I share folders with has been asked to upgrade her plan to get access to these folders. Why?  
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Mark's avatar
Mark
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12 days ago
Laguille wrote:

one of my members I share folders with has been asked to upgrade her plan to get access to these folders. Why?

Because you have a 2TB plan, they dont. Account upgrades do not benefit anybody else within a share. 

The exception to this is people are within the Family Plan and using one of the family plan's licences - they dont use quota, it is only counted once. 

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