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Vitaaliy
Explorer | Level 3
3 months ago

How can I be using 8.69 GB out of 2 GB? Where can I check my actual storage?

Hi! I am Basic (2 Gb) customer. How can it be: "Using 8.69 GB of 2 GB space"? I looked through my Dropbox current content and nowhere didn't find the option to show the real memory storage occupied ...
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Rich
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headhead4 wrote:

When I go to my plan, it says I have 6gb out of 6gb being used.

You have 5.9GB of data in shared folders which is filling your account to near capacity.

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headhead4
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

oh ok. Thank you. I was so confused of how to read that.

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