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I will loose my original bonus storage space when downgrading from pro to basic. Why?
Through signing up (lots of) friends I gathered up to 49Gb of bonus storage. Last year I upgraded to Pro and now I want to downgrade back to Basic. The problem is that I now will be downgraded to 22G...
At that time the max was 50GB. This must have been around 2011-12
So have Richard and myself I'm afraid (we are both with user numbers below 25k). Originally you could only get 8gb as a free user. You needed to EITHER be Pro OR a Student to get to 16gb. To get to the full 32 you needed both.
You can see space you have learnt via www.dropbox.com/account and where its come from, however, guarantee it is NOT referrals. HTC promos were also between 26 and 50gb, however, they 'leave' a small bonus on the account when they expire - usually 2gb or so.
Thank you Marc! I didn't know I could get a complete overview of earned space. Turns out that I have 36.38GB of earned space. 32GB of which was through referrals and the rest through Camera Uploads bonus and linking with Mailbox, plus a bit for completing some tasks. (The rest that would have filled it up to 49GB must have been expired bonuses, like the HTC promo, which is not mentioned in the overview.)
So now my question remains. Why does dropbox says I will fall back to 22GB when I downgrade from Pro to Basic? I think I should keep the 36.38GB that I earned.
