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huffie's avatar
huffie
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

Space used discrepancy after calculating the size of my files and folders

Hi all, based on my directories calculated size, it shouldn't exceed more than 31TB The usage under the name reported otherwise   There were also no backups usage   [Up...
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huffie
Explorer | Level 3

Space usage as follow:

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Hannah
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7 months ago

Thanks for that, huffie.

 

What's your team space use, if you check your dashboard here?

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    huffie
    Explorer | Level 3
    7 months ago

    @Hannah , kindly find the attached Team usage as requested for your reference

     

     

     

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      Hannah
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      6 months ago

      Thanks, huffie.

       

      Can you please check one more thing?

       

      Do you have any shared folders that you don't need here?

       

      This page should show you shared folders that you never added to your account, or that you deleted.

       

      If you remove the ones you don't need (if any), do you see a difference in your used space?

      • huffie's avatar
        huffie
        Explorer | Level 3
        6 months ago

        Hi Hannah ,

            Actually I do not quite understand about that Shared folder. I am currently the only user of the account, would it matter if I'm sharing the folder? I noticed a few directories which I have previously deleted is showing up in the Shared folders as "You haven't joined this folder", when I click on the these folders it will show "Joining this folder" and recreate back this empty folder. I'm confused.

        By the way, being as an admin, things should be more straight forward instead of having to check this and that just to find out that some files/folders are hidden from normal view taking up spaces.

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