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JHSEsq
Helpful | Level 5
5 months ago
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Cannot delete a file from my Dropbox account, why?

Trying to delete a file.  It's my dropbox account and my file.  I hover over the three dots and everything EXCEPT delete appears.  WTH? Dell desktop, Windows 10  
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    JHSEsq
    5 months ago

    Hi - I figured it out.  There's a "suggested for you" area from which I was trying to delete it.  Virtually all other options are there, but not delete.  I have to go to the file list and there are the three dots on the right.  Thanks to the developers for the ever increasingly complicated way of doing things.
    Thank you.

    JHS

     

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JHSEsq
Helpful | Level 5
5 months ago

Apparently I cannot edit my post - I opened the document and was able to delete it there, but the instructions I found online suggested that I could do it while looking at the file in the folder. It would make sense to be able to do so rather than have to open the file first.  In any case, it's deleted. 

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