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Ron Hummel
2 years agoHelpful | Level 5
The DELETE button is greyed out
Am trying to delete an entire folder's worth of songs I don't want, but the DELETE button is greyed out on all of them. I am the administrator of that dropbox. Help?
OK, here's the fix for Mac. First, rename your existing folder of files on the external drive, I chose something appropriate, "ScrewedUpDropbox." Then start from ground zero, quit DB and toss the folder it created on the system drive. Startup and relink to dropbox, let it create that folder on the system drive again and as soon as it starts syncing, pause it. Go to Preferences, change the dropbox folder location to your External HD and hit OK through the prompts. Wait for Dropbox to do its thing reloacting the folder. Before unpausing, go to the external drive in the finder and move all of your folders in "ScrewedUpDropbox" into the newly created "Dropbox" folder that's now there. Then unpause syncing. It will resync to all your files without copying, takes a fraction of the time. Whew!
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- Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hey there, Ron Hummel, let's jump right into this!
Is it safe to assume that you're trying to delete content, using our website?
Have you tried a different browser altogether, or an incognito tab on your current one? Also, is there a chance of that folder being a shared one?
Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there!
- Ron HummelHelpful | Level 5
I just figured out out...had to first "unshare" the files, and then I was able to delete them. Thanks anyway Megan!
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
- Ron HummelHelpful | Level 5
I was able to figure this out and get the DELETE button to revert back to functioning. Thanks-
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