Cohousing-L Mailing List: Dropbox Limit Solution

[Barbara Scott (bls2753]

Hi.  A tech team in my community is looking for specific ideas from
cohousing communities that use Dropbox and have found creative ‘legal’
solutions to Dropbox’s storage limit.  We have one owner with a paid
account, who shares community information folders that have a total of
about 1.5 gb.  Our developer also has a Dropbox folder for our community
with about 1 gb total.  Not all of our members share that developer Dropbox
folder, but those that do are approaching, even going over, their 2 gb
limit between our shared folders and the developer’s shared folder.  The
reason for this is that Dropbox includes all shared files when calculating
one’s current storage.

When construction is completed (end of 2023), we expect to be able to
archive any developer documents we need to keep, thus lowering our storage
requirements. In the meantime, members who need the access are having to
upgrade their accounts in order to do their work for the community.

As my team continues our search for a solution, I want to send my thanks to
Sharon Villines, Stephanie Fassnacht, a Google expert at the Mountain View
Cohousing Community, and a couple of tech helpers at Emerson Cohousing.  It
is so helpful to be able to contact people at other cohousing communities,
who share so willingly how they are solving the problem of storing
documents online.

If you prefer to e-mail me directly about your community’s solution with
Dropbox, please do so at bls2753 [at] gmail.com.

Thank you so much!

Barbara Scott

Washington Commons

West Sacramento, CA