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SausalitoDog
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2 years ago
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What happens with Dropbox if I do a clean Os install?

I'm going to do a clean install of Sonoma on one of my Mac's. This will obviously delete all of my Dropbox files.  Will that affect the Dropbox files on my other two Mac’s? If so do I sign out of Dro...
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    Megan
    2 years ago

    Hey there, SausalitoDog, thanks for posting here! 

     

    The best thing that you can do, is sign out of your Dropbox account on that specific device. 

     

    That way, even if your files are erased locally, the changes won't sync to the website, and therefore to the other two Macs. 

     

    I hope this helps! 

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Rich
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2 years ago
SausalitoDog wrote:

I'm going to do a clean install of Sonoma on one of my Mac's. This will obviously delete all of my Dropbox files.  Will that affect the Dropbox files on my other two Mac’s?

Just uninstall the Dropbox application first, to be safe, and you'll be fine.

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