How to delete a file that was shared with me from the 'Recents'?

[rsrunique]

I sent links to 'email' some large files.  The files show up now in dropbox under recent; however, there is no way to delete them.  The system message is 'the file does not exist'.  They are still there after more than a month of not being accessed.

[Mark]

It is not possible to delete the 'Recent Files' list I'm afraid.

Note, however, they are not using up space or quota if they are not stored within your Dropbox. 

[rsrunique]

Thank you very much for responding to this inquiry.

Do these files ever go away, given enough time?  

I think they must be using up space - the original files on my computer have been deleted.  

The content is still available in dropbox; so, the files have to be somewhere.

Could DropBox be hiding them somewhere on my computer?

[Mark]

They wont take up Dropbox space if they are not at www.dropbox.com/home. They WILL take up hard drive space if you saved somewhere else (desktop / downloads etc.). Or, if you deleted to recycle bin and havent emptied yet 🙂