Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
As long as you've uninstalled Dropbox from a computer, or unlinked a computer from your Dropbox account, you can safely delete the local copy because they're not syncing with your account anymore. 12-07-2018 05:24 PM. Just uninstall Dropbox from the computer, then you can safely delete the Dropbox folder from it.
Hannah, I reviewed your post and the linked article in conjunction with my efforts to uninstall Dropbox and reinstall it using a completely different account. What I've experienced on several attempts, including manually deleting everything named "Dropbox" on the C:/ drive, drove me down to the information in the article about using RegEdit.
I use dropbox for work, but only use a select few files and can easily just go onto dropbox online to download the files I need. I had the dropbox app installed on my laptop, but hundreds of other colleages files were downloading onto my laptop and using up all of my hard drive space. I have complet...
Hopefully this is helpful. ~~~Remove Dropbox Windows Explorer Entry (Stuck After Uninstall)~~~. 1. Open regedit as administrator and search "C:\Users\ [USERNAME]\Dropbox" (or whichever path you set up for your Dropbox folder on your computer) for data values (It will take a minute to find anything, just be patient) 2.
My computer Operating system is Windows 10. I have managed to un sync from my account and deleted all the folders concerned in my Dropbox account. On my computer the Dropbox folder is located C:\Users\dough\Dropbox and it contains a "PC" folder in which contains Desktop, Documents, and Downloads. Whenever I uninstall or delete the Dropbox ...
Have you attempted to uninstall the program dropbox from your computer. This should remove the file folder for dropbox. In your search bar search "Remove" then once you open that choose the program you want to remove and uninstall it. This might require a computer restart as it is part of the file folders and sometimes needs to be reset.
I need to clear up storage space and want to delete a large folder from my dropbox folder. I've followed the accepted answer from the following post in which is says to sync the folder to dropbox.com then remove it from selective sync and delete it.
Yes. If you uinstall Dropbox from your computer, it will stop syncing, and you'll be able to safely remove the local Dropbox folder to free up disk space. Make sure you uninstall first. If you remove the files while Dropbox is running, Dropbox will sync the deletions to the cloud.
Dropbox will sync any changes you make across all of your devices and your account online. Add a file to Dropbox on your computer and it's added everywhere. Delete a file and it's deleted everywhere. In order to remove the local copy of a folder from your computer while leaving it in your Dropbox account online, use Selective Sync.
Q2: reformating removes the dropbox client and so nothing happens. So, first you "unlink the old computer" from the dropbox account then you can keep old files, reformat, whatever.