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Clients share files with me using Dropbox so I need a Dropbox account. My Dropbox account is now close to full and I have to "manage it". I don't like how files shared with me count against my quota and I don't like having to babysit a service my clients use to share files. I wonder how many business owners "just pay" to make the nag messaging go away.

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Very much this. I don't use Dropbox personally. But I have clients that use it extensively and when they all share large files with me I am suddenly in the pay tier just because someone added me to a folder with 100 10 minute videos in it.

It feels an awful lot like double and triple dipping to me.

Not a Dropbox user myself, but this system of counting shared files towards your quota seems pretty awful, and I'm surprised I've not seen more complaints about it. Do other cloud storage providers work this way?

I think Google Drive and Mega do (they definitely used to).

Google doesn't do it as long as you are just adding a shortcut to drive.

However, when the original person deletes the folder/file, you lose access to it since it was only a linked to you and not added to your drive.

On iCloud, "A shared folder only takes up space in the owner's iCloud storage."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210910

> I don't like how files shared with me count against my quota

I stopped using dropbox many years ago over this one issue.

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