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NAK
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Dropbox size on Desktop is smaller than Dropbox size online

With Dropbox Basic, I recieved an alert saying my dropbox is full -all 8.25 GB are used. But when I check my Dropbox file on my desktop it's size is 1.89 GB. All folders are marked to sync so I can...
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NAK
Explorer | Level 3
I just removed a 90MB folder. just so Dropbox can fully sync.
now that is is fully synced and not full over the top there is still a large discrepancy between the Dropbox online & desktop - 8.2GB Vs 1.8GB
All folders online are synced to desktop...

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