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My Dropbox folder on my hard drive contains 1948 items totalling 266.9 MB.
Why does Dropbox say I have 98.4% of 2.0 GB used?
On the Dropbox website I can see a (Symlink Backup Copy) for eack of the folders inside my on-disk Dropbox folder.
Even with those backup copies, shouldn't the total come to 266.9 MB + 266.9 MB = 533.8 MB.
So why am I butting up against 2.0 GB? I'm confused as to what's taking up this space, and how to free it.
Any explanations or advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Hey @magnator, thanks for reaching out to us.
If you plan page reports that your space is being taken up by backup files, you should be able to find them in your backups page here.
If all your computers are already disconnected from your account, you can just delete the backups, to free up your space from that page.
Hannah
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Happy to see that you were able to fix this, @magnator!
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Have a great weekend!
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