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Mac Brands's avatar
Mac Brands
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

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...
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Andrew G.29's avatar
Andrew G.29
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

@Monib M/Glyph:

Yes I read your question. Your question was "I clicked the button and cannot reconnect my Mac because DropBox will delete 250GB of data IN MY PRO ACCOUNT". If you wanted to know how to cancel the wipe, then why the hell did you phrase your question that way? A better suited phrase would be the exact question: "how do I prevent DropBox from doing a local deletion upon reconnecting?"

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