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Double-dipping on charges by Dropbox or simply bad sharing practices?
So, I have a Dropbox account, Basic plan. To be transparent, my personal storage is OneDrive based, but a registered Australian community charity I'm involved with uses Dropbox for some functions. ...
Hi cooperp
You are right in your assumption that anything in your Dropbox uses your space, so, yes, if you need access to shared folders with read/write access then you need enough space to host and store that. There is no option to change that.
If you dont need read/write access you can ask for a shared link instead.
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIHi cooperp
You are right in your assumption that anything in your Dropbox uses your space, so, yes, if you need access to shared folders with read/write access then you need enough space to host and store that. There is no option to change that.
If you dont need read/write access you can ask for a shared link instead.
Thanks for the quick reply. I actually do not need write, only read, so I'll let the 'administrators' know. Fantastic.
