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Delete more than 1000 at a time
Hi, I am trying to set up a website and am using Dropbox very successfully with Photo Finish but have hit a snag whereby I need to delete 5500 images I have just used and no longer need. However, wh...
Hi JaniceH, thanks for added info, and sorry for any confusion this might have caused.
I checked with our Team, and it seems there is indeed a 1K file limitation when trying to delete content.
I'd recommend, if you wish, that you take some time to post on our Share an idea section of the Community, in order to suggest this feature request. That way others can also upvote it, and our developers can consider this change.
I hope this clarifies!
This is what it says…
Delete cannot be performed. Maximum number of items exceeded (1000).
Please deselect some items before trying again.”
I have 1469 images now… manually deleted over 3000 last night!!!
Need to do this all again and again for about 10 suppliers and 40000 odd images. I am using my personal basic free plan, fyi Thanks J
Delete cannot be performed. Maximum number of items exceeded (1000).
Please deselect some items before trying again.”
I have 1469 images now… manually deleted over 3000 last night!!!
Need to do this all again and again for about 10 suppliers and 40000 odd images. I am using my personal basic free plan, fyi Thanks J
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi JaniceH, thanks for added info, and sorry for any confusion this might have caused.
I checked with our Team, and it seems there is indeed a 1K file limitation when trying to delete content.
I'd recommend, if you wish, that you take some time to post on our Share an idea section of the Community, in order to suggest this feature request. That way others can also upvote it, and our developers can consider this change.
I hope this clarifies!
Hello, I was having the same issue and realized I could do a search to return a subset of files close to but not exceeding 1000 and select them all - it doesn't mean you can delete 30,000 at once but it makes it much easier to select a decent batch of them.
