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Sharing files from a friend is filling my DropBox account! How do I stop that?

A friend of mine is collecting a series of lectures, as audio files. He's asked me to listen and then have a discussion with him about each file. I just got a notice from DropBox that I'm running out of room in MY account. What are we doing wrong? Why should my account be filling?

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Mark

Because you are in a shared folder. Shared folders use up everybodys quota.

If you need just access to listen to them ask him to send you a shared link instead.

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Mark

Because you are in a shared folder. Shared folders use up everybodys quota.

If you need just access to listen to them ask him to send you a shared link instead.

EventHorizon

I have a similar situation. How do I get rid of the files CURRENTLY filling my Dropbox, which are from my corporate account?

If I try to delete them, the message I get "Do you want to delete these files for everyone", implies that if I delete them from my Dropbox, I will delete corporate files.

I don't really understand how these files ended up in my personal dropbox at all. I figured the app was smart enough to give me a consolidated view of both of my dropbox accounts.

Megan

Hey there @EventHorizon, how are you today?

Are you talking about shared content? Have you followed these steps, by any chance?

Let me know more!

Mark

@EventHorizon wrote:
I figured the app was smart enough to give me a consolidated view of both of my dropbox accounts.

@EventHorizon just to add here - unless one of the accounts is a paid for business account you cannot see both on a device at the same time.