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Dropbox full because of shared folder
Hi, i have a dropbox account and the free space that i have is full because of the files inside the shared folder that i have with some friends.
Is there a way to avoid that the shared folder that ...
Your English is very good Michele - well done!
And no, if you need read write access to that folder if will use your quota. If you just need read only access leave the share and ask the other person sends you a read only Shared link.
You can LEAVE and REJOIN a shared folder when ever you like.
So one method of getting space is to LEAVE the shared folder. And REJOIN it when you need it.
If you ONLY need some files from the shared folder and ONLY at some times, I would additionally ask the owner of the shared folder for a LINK to it, in that way you can use the link to it and download via web the files you need when you need them.
Although I don't agree with Dropbox, and this is the primary reason I won't spring for Pro, I understand why they did this.
It's simple, really. Say, someone creates 10 free accounts. 10 x 2GB = 20GB. Now, that person, from each account shares a folder with his main account. That person just got more, free, space.
*Corstiaan S. : *again i would suggest you actually find out where costs lay before implying what they are.
100 people accessing a 1GB file, will mean that 100 people make reads access into the Amazon S3 storage backbone of Db, each and every one of these reads is charged to DB. Its is not all about the physical space used to store, but what and how often it is accessed and updated that costs.
This is the same reason DB do not offer 100GB accounts now, I would suspect the average account has under 50GB of changing content, changing content needs to be read and written, those acts cost, thus a 100GB account or a 1TB account costs relativly the same to run, hence why DB wont sell smaller accounts, they cost the same to run so why would they offer it any cheaper. The same can be applied to sharing, its the costs to run, not the space used that is in play.
DB charge once for space, but pay for traffic, if you connect 100 devices and download your 1TB of files to all 100, they dont charge you for the traffic, so its swings and roundabouts.
Dont like it? get off!
