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Siine's avatar
Siine
Explorer | Level 3
2 months ago

How to stop shared Dropbox files from taking up my personal hard drive space?

I am not the owner of a shared folder . I only have editing access. I only add files into the shared folder, but now the shared folder is eating up space in my personal storage space. I have made all...
  • Rich's avatar
    2 months ago

    Siine wrote:

    How can i still have access to the shared folders but not have them saved to my personal storage ?


    If you're a member of a shared folder, you have your own copy of the folder in your account taking up space. Anything in the folder, along with anything you add, is actually in your account and syncs back to all the other members. You're not uploading directly to someone else's account.

     

     

    If you require edit access, there's no easy easy way around it. You could ask for a view-only shared link to download the files you need, and a File Request to upload files back to their account, but that can be a pain to manage.

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