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Someone shared a folder with me, and it immediately said I'm out of storage.
Never used DropBox before. Started a new position and was emailed an invite to edit a folder on DropBox by a co-worker. My questions are: This folder is quite large and when I created my log in at the Basic level it said I was out of storage instantly. Do I automatically need to upgrade to more capacity if all I am doing is sharing this other file? or is there a version where I can piggy back off theirs and not need my own account?
Hi Rags1, welcome to our Community!
A shared folder takes up space on both the sender's and the receiver's Dropbox account.
If you have a Basic 2GB account, and someone shared with you a folder that's 2GB or more, that would immediately reduce your quota, and put you out of space.
If you wish, you can ask the user to share a link with you, but that would allow you to view and download the file, and not edit.
I hope this clarifies!
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hi Rags1, welcome to our Community!
A shared folder takes up space on both the sender's and the receiver's Dropbox account.
If you have a Basic 2GB account, and someone shared with you a folder that's 2GB or more, that would immediately reduce your quota, and put you out of space.
If you wish, you can ask the user to share a link with you, but that would allow you to view and download the file, and not edit.
I hope this clarifies!
Thank you Megan. If the user share the link and you can view and download, will you be allowed to add to the folder?
- Mark
Super User II
bbzebra wrote:
Thank you Megan. If the user share the link and you can view and download, will you be allowed to add to the folder?
No.
Shared links are one way download only.
If you need to then share back you either need a shared folder (which uses quota) or you can ask them for a Requests link which allows you to upload to them
