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Adryana
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3 years ago

Admin required to delete shared files

When I get a Dropbox file from someone else that gives only the option to add it to my dropbox, I am then unable to delete it from my dropbox - I get an admin login box that pops up.  It may be a Mic...
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Adryana's avatar
Adryana
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Delete option is greyed out on that page.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi Adryana, this looks to be a Windows prompt, not a Dropbox one. 

 

Are you on a company-managed device, or a personal machine? Have you previously amended the UAC settings to make it more sensitive?

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    Adryana
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    We're going to run it by our IT people.  I'm sure that I did (or someone else company-wide did ) make a change to some setting that caused these shared files to require approvals for deletion.

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