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How do I disable the "Delete file for everyone" message?
There are some old threads on this but couldn't find anything recently. A client with around a million files in Dropbox is migrating to SharePoint- not specifically because Dropbox doesn't work but because the overall M365 environment works better for them.
So I'm scripting synchronising by folder to SharePoint using robocopy. However, when I then delete the folder in Dropbox, I'm getting the prompt as to whether to delete for everyone. This is going to pop-up several hundreds times as that's how many individual top-level folders they have.
It's not like one prompt appears for all the individual deletions - it's one prompt per folder deleted. I've been testing the script and maybe deleting a folder (sometimes containing 5,000 files) every minute. But the delete prompts are only occurring every 5 minutes or so, sometimes longer. I assume that's because Dropbox is deleting the first folder (which takes 5+ mins for that many files) and then moving onto the next folder
How do I disable this prompt? I suspect I can't (doh!) so I might have to consider moving the folders to a "Deleted" folder which I assume won't trigger the prompt.
I've seen that checkbox mentioned in other posts but never seen it at this client. However, I've since discovered that the prompt only appears if you delete folders/files from File Explorer. If you (say) delete from the command line then the prompt doesn't appear which is fine for my scripting purposes. I suppose this makes sense - apps etc are frequently creating and deleting files (e.g. Word lock file) and if this prompt was triggered by non-user operations, the user would get very confused.
