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ioasdasdasda
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

How to remove my former employer's Dropbox files from my computer

Hello, Complicated situation.   Old employer's dropbox is still set up on my PC. It was logged in via my bosses email, I think. I have the dropbox folder still visible in my file explorer with ...
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    9 months ago

    ioasdasdasda wrote:

    It still worries me that the folder itself was updating with files from the company up to a few days ago, even when, seemingly, I wasn't signed in on the Dropbox application.


    If you could see files updating and the Dropbox application was still installed and running, then it was still signed in and syncing. The files can't sync if the application isn't signed in and running.

     


    I'm still sort of terrified to delete the files.

    Don't be. As long as you've uninstalled Dropbox from the computer, there's no way that deleting the folder will affect anyone else.

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