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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.
- So bye now [...]
Oh, thank goodness. You're leaving. Maybe now the actual complaints about this actual problem can be heard.
- [...] just one thing [...]
Oh for f--...
- [...] go look up what troll means, and then examine your post for similarities. I think you will be surprised (actually that's sarcasm, I doubt you would get it).
Your attempt at having the last word would have gone better had you actually taken your own advice and looked up the definition. Let me Google that for you. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define:trolling
- "make a deliberately offensive or provocative online posting with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them."
My aim was to point out that there's a very real problem here, which I'll state explicitly again for the record: At no point during the process of sharing or joining a folder is any user made aware that the use of shared folders, one of the main features of the Dropbox platform, comes at the cost of storage capacity.
The only other task I had hoped to accomplish was to make you understand that your reasoning--indeed, your entire argument--is flawed. "Access to data," or however you word it, is not what Dropbox touts as a feature; they market storage capacity. To promise users a capacity of storage only to turn around an take some of it away without alerting the user is underhanded and deceitful.
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Being oblivious to how ignorant and conceited you make yourself look must be great. Prove me wrong by either acknowledging or rebutting my arguments (the two I've reiterated, in bold, above). Your refusal to do so does not magically make me a troll.
