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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.
I just ran into this issue, as a paid user trying to share large files to someone with a free account. Seems pretty shady of dropbox to me, it's not like they are duplicating the server use when I share something I've already paid to have stored. So basically dropbox is using my paid account to force someone else to pay to access something I want them to be able to use from within my own paid account.
- Rich
MrWyrd wrote:
... it's not like they are duplicating the server use when I share something I've already paid to have stored.
Storage isn't the only consideration as bandwidth is also needed, unless the person you're sharing with won't be downloading the files. The policy is also in effect to prevent people from stacking accounts for unlimited storage.
