You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Using "Manage Hard Drive Space" for folders synced through Dropbox Backup
So there's a great feature in Dropbox desktop that allows you to see graphically what is taking up all of the space on your hard drive, and very quickly change certain/all dropbox content to online only to free up space. However, it turns out that if you use Dropbox Backup, that manage feature is disabled. I don't fully understand why, as using backup as I see it, makes my desktop and documents live in my Dropbox folder set, and can be used as such, with making my own files online to save space. I appreciate that maybe the Manage Space function may not be able to work against my desktop/documents backup, but I would still expect to be able to manage my main Dropbox Team folder content to release any old offline files easily. I did raise this previously onhttps://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Missing-quot-Manage-Hard-Drive-Space-quot-option-when-using/idc-p/776330but it was closed due to inactivity. Figured I would raise it again to keep it live and hope that people upvote it, so that the dev guys take a look at it.
Capacity Limit Messages
Hi! A first timer here. I get messages about exceeding storage capacity of 2 gig. My computer shows only 1.35 GB used. The Dropbox site shows 2.8 GB. Not sure why the big difference. But poking around the site shows 1.35 GB on something called USB Disk. Not sure if these are my main files stored or Dropbox is backing up information. I don't need/want back up nor have I asked Drop Box to back up any files. The site gives me the option of deleting this USB Disk. So my question is, if I delete this USB Disk, will it restore my capacity and start synching again. Or will it delete all my stored files? Thanks for your help Dan
I'm out of space but I have nothing in my files. Why?
I am getting popups saying that my Dropbox is running of our space. When I check it tells me I'm using 5.3 GB of 6.3 GB but I have virtually nothing in my files. I have one folder that has 876 KB of data in it and that's all. Why is DB telling me I'm almost out of space?