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flh
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2 years ago
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delete folders from unlinked device

Just double checking: if I unlink my laptop from Dropbox and then delete the folders on my laptop, I know it doesn't delete them from my cloud account, but does it delete them from my desktop that it...
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    Rich
    2 years ago
    flh wrote:

    Just double checking: if I unlink my laptop from Dropbox and then delete the folders on my laptop, I know it doesn't delete them from my cloud account, but does it delete them from my desktop that it was formerly linked to?

    Once you unlink a device, there's no connection back to anything. You can safely delete the files from it.

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Rich
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2 years ago
flh wrote:

Just double checking: if I unlink my laptop from Dropbox and then delete the folders on my laptop, I know it doesn't delete them from my cloud account, but does it delete them from my desktop that it was formerly linked to?

Once you unlink a device, there's no connection back to anything. You can safely delete the files from it.

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