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Bo JustMe
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Lost bonus space

I use Basic Dropbox for almost 10 years. During my professional life I recommended dropbox to many colleagues, so I regularly owned an additional 0.5 GB because of that. Moreover, at some moment I bo...
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    Bo JustMe
    2 years ago

    Hm. (hesitating...)

    I can't remember I ever instructed dropbox to make such a backup.

    (Did dropbox initiated making this backup for some reason?)

    Anyway, I don't need it. Deleted.

     

    And, yes, you solved the problem!

     

    Personal Dropbox space    -    Using 5.8 GB of 9.25 GB

    Regular files (3.6 GB)     -     Shared files (2.2 GB)     -     Unused space (3.5 GB)
     
    So, it looks like I got my 9.25 GB space back, of which 3.6 GB and 2.2 GB are used, and ... I have my 3.5 GB unused space back.
    I dropped a 270 MB file in some folder and it appears after sync on dropbox.com.
    You solved my problem. I thank you very - very - much.
    (Too bad the regular support couldn't/wouldn't help me though....)
     

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