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!
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.
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 trying to set up a website and am using Dropbox very successfully with Photo Finish but have hit a snag whereby I need to delete 5500 images I have just used and no longer need. However, when I hover over the delete button having ticked the files in bulk, a message comes up to advise I cannot delete more than 1000 images at once, Is there a way around this please? I did the online chat but no success. Can anyone help and advise please? I still have over 40000 items to go!! Many thanks in advance J
I'd recommend, if you wish, that you take some time to post on our Share an idea section of the Community, in order to suggest this feature request. That way others can also upvote it, and our developers can consider this change.
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If the ORDER BY clause is specified, the rows are deleted in the order that is specified. The LIMIT clause places a limit on the number of rows that can be deleted. These clauses apply to single-table deletes, but not multi-table deletes.
To ensure that a given DELETE statement does not take too much time, the MySQL-specific LIMIT row_count clause for DELETE specifies the maximum number of rows to be deleted. If the number of rows to delete is larger than the limit, repeat the DELETE statement until the number of affected rows is less than the LIMIT value.
DELETE supports explicit partition selection using the PARTITION clause, which takes a list of the comma-separated names of one or more partitions or subpartitions (or both) from which to select rows to be dropped. Partitions not included in the list are ignored. Given a partitioned table t with a partition named p0, executing the statement DELETE FROM t PARTITION (p0) has the same effect on the table as executing ALTER TABLE t TRUNCATE PARTITION (p0); in both cases, all rows in partition p0 are dropped.
PARTITION can be used along with a WHERE condition, in which case the condition is tested only on rows in the listed partitions. For example, DELETE FROM t PARTITION (p0) WHERE c If you specify the LOW_PRIORITY modifier, the server delays execution of the DELETE until no other clients are reading from the table. This affects only storage engines that use only table-level locking (such as MyISAM, MEMORY, and MERGE).
The IGNORE modifier causes MySQL to ignore ignorable errors during the process of deleting rows. (Errors encountered during the parsing stage are processed in the usual manner.) Errors that are ignored due to the use of IGNORE are returned as warnings. For more information, see The Effect of IGNORE on Statement Execution.
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