What's going on with Dropbox

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When you check your Account: on the Dropbox site > avatar (upper right corner) > Manage account > Personal Dropbox space
what does it report on number of devices connected? Under Manage Account what is the breakdown of storage being used? mine for example is:
Personal Dropbox space Using 2.5 GB of 5.88 GB
Regular files (1.3 GB)
Backup (0 bytes)
Shared files (1.2 GB)
Unused space (3.3 GB)

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AirDrop on Sonoma has gotten rather wacky. It can see the ghosts of a couple of old macs that bit the dust earlier this year, but my wife and I have having trouble using it between our newer devices even when they are in the same room. Does anybody have a remedy?

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Regarding the response recommending Mail Dropā€¦ I find it unreliable. Half the time it doesnā€™t engage (and thereā€™s no way Iā€™m aware of to manually engage it).

Part of Dropboxā€™s business model is pushing people to upgrade to paid plans. One alternative is to turn off Dropbox notifications.

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@openreels is right, a shared Dropbox folder does count against your total storage tally

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I think that it is worth contacting Dropbox support if the software is saying that you are over the 2 GB limit when you are not.

As others have suggested, there are numerous free/nominal cost alternatives, including Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, and iCloud Drive, along with more specialized tools.

I do a fair amount of consulting. In practice, that means I need to use all of the major platforms at least occasionally. I canā€™t say that any of the major players are much better or worse than the others. Itā€™s mostly a matter of getting used to how they work.

As most of the major platforms have been converging on using Appleā€™s ā€œStorage Providerā€ APIs for managing cloud syncing, the differences between platforms have been decreasing. FWIW, my preferred platform is Dropbox, and I have found it to be rock solid. I do pay for the 2 TB Dropbox Plus plan, so my exerience may be different from yours.

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