Folder showing a Share Icon

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JOfE wrote:

... I have never shared them. ... 

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Hi JOfE,

Are you sure you "have never shared them"? 🧐 🙂 I'm sure in just opposite.

At some moment you have shared the folders, in focus, to some people. Later the share recipient(s) remove their-self from the sharing. Finally as a result (most probably a bug) the folder(s) remain "shared" while they are NOT actually. 🤷 That's it.

It could be easily reproduced:

The weird thing here is you cannot unshare a folder non shared actually, but still labeled as a such. In my reproductions is a difference. Such a folder appear everywhere as a shared, not just on Dropbox site, like in your case. On my mobile, for example:

On mobile I can cancel sharing (ellipsis menu). It's really strange why the same can't be done on the Dropbox web site. 🤷

The only other workaround, I can think of, is following the steps (folder name "Test" is used as an example) below:

1. Rename folder "Test" to something like "Test.tmp".
2. Create new folder "Test".
3. Move entire content of "Test.tmp" into "Test".
4. Remove "Test.tmp".

Now, there is a same folder "Test" without any "share" label. 😉 If you are disturbed by the "labeling", can repeat the same for all incorrectly labeled folders. The share status get removed only when you unshare file/folder yourself, not by other parties (the actual bug). You can wait for the bug be fixed, but I wont encourage you cause Dropbox will ignore it (I'm pretty sure). The choice is yours.

Hope this helps to some extent.