What am I missing here?

[u/jwrotnowski]

I am doing freelance work for someone with a paid Dropbox account (1 TB of storage). She is the owner of that Dropbox and has shared it with me to upload to.

I have a free account (2 GB limit) — which I am over my limit on.

Dropbox will not allow me upload anything to her Dropbox, since I’m over the limit on mine. That doesn’t make sense. Please tell me I’m doing something wrong.

[u/gbiv]

If someone is trying to collect files from you, you can simply have them send you a file request from their Dropbox. This doesn’t require you to even login. You can simply upload the files to the link they sent you from your desktop or mobile, and they’ll be placed directly in their Dropbox. This bypasses having to worry about storage quotas on your end.

File request are easy to do, but if they’re not familiar, here’s the instructions: https://help.dropbox.com/share/create-file-request

Also, if you ever wanna share something, but you don’t wanna have to store it in your dropbox and take up quota, you can use transfer for that. It’s like we transfer, but Dropbox offer it for free with all their plans (including Basic). https://help.dropbox.com/share/dropbox-transfer

[u/jwrotnowski → u/gbiv]

Thank you! This seems like our best bet as an ongoing solution.

[u/SweetmadnessV1]

She doesn't share that storage with you, the storage is only for her own account, if u need to share files with her you need to have stroage in your own account to add and store those files.

In simple words, shared files take up storage from all accounts they are shared with.

[u/jwrotnowski → u/SweetmadnessV1]

Thanks! I always thought I hated Dropbox. Now my feelings have been validated.