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Jenson
New member | Level 1
5 days ago

Deleted for everyone?

I uploaded a folder to my Dropbox app that have been shared with me. I accidentally uploaded the folder twice so I deleted it once. Then I received an email saying that I’ve deleted 10960 files from my account. As these were shared with me will they be deleted for everyone? (I’m desperately hoping not)

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    Jenson wrote:

    I uploaded a folder to my Dropbox app that have been shared with me. ... As these were shared with me will they be deleted for everyone? (I’m desperately hoping not)

    If you uploaded files into a shared folder, and then later deleted them from the same shared folder, then they would be deleted for all members of that shared folder. Any changes made in a shared folder will be made for all members of the folder.

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