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Gkln
2 months agoHelpful | Level 7
My account is not displaying the correct size of my folders
When I let display the folder size, sizes are displayed with a ">" (greater as) sign in front. This is no useful information. For example, the first folder is displayed with "> 599,02 MB", but i...
- 24 days ago
Problem got solved:
(at least at the moment it looks so)
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
31 days agoThanks for the additional screenshots, Gkln.
Since your folders all have the > sign (greater/larger than), it means that the contents are larger than the number shown there, which is basically correct.
However, can you also open each folder and calculate the contents, to see if those numbers add up?
- Gkln31 days agoHelpful | Level 7
I could open, but each folder contains > 100 files, e.g., all together ~600 files. I hope you don't ask me to add manually all ~600 values Dropbox displays for each file.
Those folders were uploaded from PC, and the sum of what Windows explorer tells me about the sizes of those folders fit to the value displayed in the lower left of the Dropbox main window, that is actually 6.52 GB as you can see on the screenshot. If you sum up the folder values given in Dropbox you get > 4257,50, that is "formally" correct, as 6.52 GB is in fact > 4257,50.
As Dropbox can add up all file sizes to the total given in the lower left, it is hard to understand why it cannot do the same for each folder.
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