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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 9:27 AM

    Ah! More homework. At 5:20 AM I get a email from Dropbox saying they're deleting my account tomorrow. This is the subsidiary account that actually stores no data, but went over quota anyway some years ago due to a change in how Dropbox calculates quotas (making it possible to go over data quota with zero data). After doing this Dropbox sent me an email once a week for ten years saying I was over quota. Then today I guess switched to "fix it or we delete the account. 24hr deadline". Ok

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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 9:30 AM

    Since the account is kinda broken (due to the weird quota rule change) maybe Dropbox is doing me a favor by deleting it, but otoh maybe I misremember and there's like… 1 file in there? I should check. It's 5:20 AM why am I awake

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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 9:55 AM

    @dysfun On Dropbox, if account A shares a folder with account B, the size of the folder is double counted, once against A's quota and once against B's quota. This means if you accept a share link from someone, they can intentionally lock up your account by simply placing an overlarge file in the shared folder.

    I unintentionally did this by sharing a large folder from my main account to my otherwise-empty backup account back before that caused the backup account to go over quota.

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