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Phlurim
Explorer | Level 4
8 months ago

Can’t seem to physically move files from Dropbox to iPad, and then delete them from DropBox

     After getting an email that I am exceeding my DropBox quota limit, I attempted a few things to move just one of my DropBox files to my iPad. Something seemed to happen in only one of those attem...
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Jay
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8 months ago

Hi Phlurim, thanks for providing these details!

 

It sounds like you've marked the file to be available offline, instead of downloading it and deleting it from your Dropbox account.

 

Do you have the Dropbox desktop application installed on your machine? Is the Dropbox folder visible in Finder? What is the quota breakdown according to this page?

 

Keep me posted!

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