Asan admin-level user, I moved a board from one folder to another and yet am unable to delete the now empty folder because I did not create it. Echoing the above, as an admin user, it is critical I am able to override the default permissions/ creations of lower-level users. Please help!
I've been trying to find out what is taking space in my Dropbox. When I go to Manage account it says I have 11.8 GBs of Backups out of 15 GB. However I cannot actually find out what backup this is nor delete it.
All the steps I've checked on the site talks about installing a Desktop App then going to Sync and Backup. However there's no such thing. I'm using the latest Dropbox app downloaded from Dropbox website and running on Windows 11.
Also if I go to Dropbox app in the taskbar and then click on my account name then go to Preferences there's an option for the tab called Backups. However this tab opens up just the folders however I've not selected any folders to be backed up. There's no way to actually delete backups.
I've tried unlinking all devices from my account, deleting all files in the directories and still there's this 11GB just missing. Why can't Dropbox app just show what is taking the space and have an option to delete it?
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I recently accidentally clicked yes to backing up to Dropbox a USB with a lot of photos and some videos on it. It has taken up all my storage, which I don't want to do. I want to delete it, but it is not showing up on my list of files on my computer. Can anyone advise me how to find the file so it can be deleted?
Hi, I am unlinking some devices and the default tick box comes up with the following ticked "Delete files from my personal Dropbox the next time this computer comes online" does this mean that if I re-link a device all my files will be deleted? OMG!
It means that the next time that computer is online it will remove the files from that computer's Dropbox folder. Your files will remain safe in your account and any other computer that is still linked. It is a method for remotely wiping a computer that has been lost or stolen.
Is there ANYONE who knows how to undo this setting? I have accentually clicked on it, and now can not reconnect my Mac because Dropbox will delete 250GB of data in my Pro account. Any help isa appreciated as I am in big trouble.
Did you even bother to read the answers? Basically, the next time your Mac reconnects to DropBox, the service will unlink your Mac and then delete the LOCAL files. It's basically DropBox's version of "Remote Wipe".
I did read the answers. I understand that it will delete the local files and keep the server side ones. I was interested in knowing if there was a way to cancel the wipe request so that it would not happen and so that I would not end up in some sort of file version management hell when DropBox tries to resync the folder. I don't want it to try and download the 250gb off the server again.
Yes I read your question. Your question was "I clicked the button and cannot reconnect my Mac because DropBox will delete 250GB of data IN MY PRO ACCOUNT". If you wanted to know how to cancel the wipe, then why the hell did you phrase your question that way? A better suited phrase would be the exact question: "how do I prevent DropBox from doing a local deletion upon reconnecting?"
@Andrew G Gosh, the cliche angry forum user with a literacy condition. My opening question (that you failed to requote) was whether there was anyway to undo this option. That was the question. Read it again, slowly. Your immediate response to that was pathetic. The problem is solved and I shared the solution with the community. You continue to carry on. Go away and find something productive that you can take all this inner rage out on.
Once again, I DID read your question! You want to undo the unlink because you state that by reconnecting your Mac to DropBox, it'll delete the data in your account, which won't happen. Need I remind you of what you said?
Obviously, I'm not the one with a literacy problem. I'm also not angry; have no idea where you got that idea from. Don't get pissed off at someone else trying to answer your poorly worded question. Next time, please proofread before you post.
The delete operator removes a property from an object. If the property's value is an object and there are no more references to the object, the object held by that property is eventually released automatically.
The delete operator has the same precedence as other unary operators like typeof. Therefore, it accepts any expression formed by higher-precedence operators. However, the following forms lead to early syntax errors in strict mode:
Because classes are automatically in strict mode, and private properties can only be legally referenced in class bodies, this means private properties can never be deleted. While delete identifier may work if identifier refers to a configurable property of the global object, you should avoid this form and prefix it with globalThis instead.
The delete operator removes a given property from an object. On successful deletion, it will return true, else false will be returned. Unlike what common belief suggests (perhaps due to other programming languages like delete in C++), the delete operator has nothing to do with directly freeing memory. Memory management is done indirectly via breaking references. See the memory management page for more details.
This creates a sparse array with an empty slot. If you want an array element to exist but have an undefined value, use the undefined value instead of the delete operator. In the following example, trees[3] is assigned the value undefined, but the array element still exists:
How do I delete an interface LAYOUT (i.e., when I click on a linked record on a page and it opens another page in the drawer with a customized LAYOUT).
I have a whole bunch of excess layouts that I was experimenting with and it has made a mess of my ability to apply the right layout setting because the dropdown has tonnes of bad layout options that, and I like to delete them so that the don't get inadvertently applied across my interface.
SCREENSHOT:
@Mike_Buck I think that would be for deleting a page in an interface, not a layout.
I'm referring to the layouts that you assign to lookup items in a page, which open another drawer to see their details
I don't see any way to do this, but as a work-around, I rename the old record detail layouts as "delete1" "delete2", etc... so I know not to use them. Some day, I'll actually be able to delete them... someday.
Really struggling with this as well. I have one nested layout (I go into one and then deeper into another) and I initially chose a layout that is not the one I want. But there is no way to change to the one I do want once I go deeper into these nested relationships. I wrote to support as well so hopefully they will see the need for managing these layouts.
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