Sherry,


My guess is that your friend is getting a fee notice from Dropbox 
because he's exceeded his storage limit for free accounts. I've 
installed Dropbox on a couple of computers over the last few days. I'm 
offered the business option, which involves a fee, or the basic option, 
which is free.


I just did it last night, in fact. My new laptop included a promotion. 
New users would get 20 GB (or something like that) for a year. Users who 
already had accounts didn't get anything extra, but I think the storage 
limit was 2 GB (though I can't swear on a stack of bibles).


At one point, a friend and I swapped large files by putting them in our 
shared folder. This caused me to exceed my limit. Since swapping the 
files was important, I went ahead and paid the fee for one month. What I 
think I remember is that he temporarily had more memory, so he didn't 
have to pay the monthly fee. The other thing I think I remember is that 
I got a whole month of extra memory even if I cancelled the subscription 
a few days later (so it wouldn't renew).


Hope this helps.


Ciao



On 2/8/2018 5:54 AM, Sherry Wells wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have Drop Box on my Windows 10 computer, the free version.  I have a
> shared folder with a friend with which we swap podcasts.  We never use more
> than 1gb.  Recently he has gotten errors saying the folder was empty when in
> fact I had several podcasts in it.  When he clicked around he got a message
> saying even for minimum space, the price was $12.50 a month.  Could this be
> right?  I'm tempted just to create a new folder & share it with him hoping
> that solves the problem.  I thought I'd check with this list first in case
> anyone knows anything about there now being a charge for Drop Box.
>
> Thanks,
> Sherry Wells
>
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