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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.
You keep saying the same things over and over again, as if it will suddenly explain away the problem. And let me be perfectly clear, here: there is a problem.
If your service is marketed by storage capacity per user (and Dropbox is), you can't explain away users' complaints about how sharing affects their storage quotas by citing additional throughput cost. Throughput and storage capacity are two entirely different things, and to limit one on the basis of the other is deceptive when you are promising a certain amount of space at signup.
I also acknowledge that you're just a user, and that you're not the one with whom I should be arguing this point. I was a Dropbox Pro customer until a few months ago when I realized that the space I was using did not exceed the capacity I would still have had as a free user.
You stated earlier in the thread that you aren't here to defend Dropbox, but rather the pricing scheme they use to "make money and survive." Promising users two things (storage and file sharing), and then telling them they may have to pay more to use both of them at the same time, sounds an awful lot like a scam to me.
You seem to think that simply because you are paying for the service, our complaints as free users don't carry weight. You can argue that the only thing they do is storage, and that they might go under unless they boost profits in this very specific, dishonest way. You can argue that as a business, paying customers' voices matter more. I can only hope that enough people realize how incredibly sleazy it is for Dropbox to operate this way. I'll hope that when confronted with the choice between paying for more space and not joining the shared folder they were just invited to, that they'll instead drop the service altogether and move to a solution that doesn't lie to them.
I'd make a comment about what you and the pompous, elitist, "I'm a paying customer so your complaints are less significant" high horse you rode in on can go do in private, but that would be rather vulgar.
