Hi! If you’re a paid ATR member currently accessing ATR content on Dropbox, you may have gotten an email today that says something like:
“Some content currently shared with you that’s owned by the Rubes team on Dropbox will be permanently deleted on 5 June 2025.”
This appears to have gone out to everyone who has access to my content on Dropbox right now.
1) This has nothing to do with your membership. You have not been cut off, and you do not need to renew if you have not gotten a renewal reminder.
2) You do not need to take any action.
I have no idea what has triggered this email, but my best guess is something to do with the fact that I temporarily took my Dropbox over its maximum storage limit yesterday. I don’t know who “the Rubes team” are, but there is nothing in my Dropbox that I can discern which I am not the original owner of.
In a worst-case scenario, where Dropbox does what the letter seems to imply – e.g. deleting the contents of the Stories Membership folder – I will simply re-upload it.
It does not seem to be an issue with the content of the folder, or it would have been deleted immediately, and it wouldn’t have referred to it being shared with me.
Anyway, the takeaway for members is you can ignore it.
– All These Roadworks
23 May 2025