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My Folder is Empty, yet it says it's full.
I have absolutely NOTHING in my folder, yet it says it's full whenever I try to drag something to it.
I have the basic version. I share with someone who has the 1TB program and he has A LOT of st...
He hasn't connected you to his Dropbox - as thats not possible. He has shared you a folder exactly as Richard said. And that uses your quota. You get 0 benefit from him being a Pro user.
So if you are SHARING his folder then it uses your quota.
And as syncing stops as soon as you go over your limit it is possible you may not see anything in your Dropbox if it went over sharply
See www.dropbox.com/account to see where your space is being used
I'm facing this issue as well. I have a 2GB limit, used barely any of it, someone shared their 20GB folder with me so I could access his files and now I can't add anything new of my own to my dropbox account.
So if I want to use my dropbox account for my own stuff I need to pay for enough storage space to accommodate his 20GB as well as what I want to be able to store. So that 20GB is being paid for by him AND me. Dropbox get paid twice! And effectively he can eat up as much of my storage as he wants, though i have the ability to remove my access it's still a bit of a wonky setup...
