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Delete files from my personal Dropbox the next time this computer comes online
Hi, I am unlinking some devices and the default tick box comes up with the following ticked "Delete files from my personal Dropbox the next time this computer comes online" does this mean that if I r...
@Andrew G. Did you even bother to read my question?
I did read the answers. I understand that it will delete the local files and keep the server side ones. I was interested in knowing if there was a way to cancel the wipe request so that it would not happen and so that I would not end up in some sort of file version management hell when DropBox tries to resync the folder. I don't want it to try and download the 250gb off the server again.
These are the instructions DropBox support gave me to get around it:
- Copy your local Dropbox folder
- Paste the Dropbox folder to another location on your computer. This is going to be your backup.
- Relink your Dropbox Desktop client to your Dropbox account.
- Wait for the wipe to finish.
- Once the wipe has finished, click on your Dropbox icon and choose "Pause Syncing"
- Now that syncing is pause, copy and paste the files within your Dropbox Folder backup, into your freshly wiped Dropbox folder.
