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Danette5
3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Error message when deleting folders
I have used Dropbox for years and have never had this problem. I'm cleaning up my files and when I try to delete a folder I get this message:
There are too many files in one request. Please retry with fewer files.
What has changed? How do I go about deleting my folders?
Hi Everybody,
Thanks for your feedback here and for notifying us of this issue. The inability to bulk delete may have been a lingering effect of the earlier outage. It should be resolved at this time. Please let us know if that's not the case.
Thanks,
Ben
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- James Menge3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I changed my plan today from annual to monthly. This must be somehow related, like a degrade in service. It seemed like the "delete one file at a time" was working (although highly inefficient), but as one of the other posters indicated, I could not even delete an empty folder.
The System Status page (https://status.dropbox.com/) is broken because it says All Systems Operational.
The customer support people (on here) haven't been super helpful.
DropBox stock price is up over 1% today, but that isn't helping us with our (in)ability to delete files and folders.
Time to get a drink.
- jackldeakin3 years agoNew member | Level 2
Same here; in fact, I'm only able to delete single files at a time, and folders don't seem to be deletable at all. It'd be nice to have a customer support email or phone line to contact here.
- drmgoulet3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
No, the issue is not resolved.
- Prepotent13 years agoExplorer | Level 4
4:45pm EDT
Dropbox status page says " Nov 2, 18:33 UTC - Resolved - This incident has been resolved." for issue: "Dropbox is not working as expected for some users."
That time - 18:33 UTC - equals 14:33 EDT - or 2:33pm EDT - which was over 2 hours ago for me.THIS ISSUE IS NOT FIXED!
I am unable - just like many other users - to delete an empty folder, or move a single file from one folder to another. I've spent over an hour trying to do so, and now I'm angry that this was not something I was doing, or didn't understand, but something wrong with Dropbox!
I am using a Chrome browser on MacOS Ventura 13.6. I've made no recent updates to Chrome, and none to the OS. I've not changed anything about my Dropbox plan. I've tested this from other computers, and with different browsers. All behave the same - unable to do simple tasks in Dropbox. I can create a new folder with the browser and upload files from my desktop. I can delete those files, but when I try to delete this new folder, I get the error message " There are too many files in one request. Please retry with fewer files.". There are NO files in the folder. The folder is not shared or linked in any way. There is no parent folder that is shared or linked in any way.
PLEASE PROVIDE A CURRENT STATUS, and PLEASE GET THIS FIXED ASAP>
Respectfully -
Prepotent1 - Danette53 years agoHelpful | Level 5
It's still not fixed for me
- short19813 years agoExplorer | Level 3
I have had no problems until today and yes I have
- restarted my computer
- logged out and logged back in
- refreshed the page
- etc
In our organization when our filed are ready to print, we click on the folder, then the ellipses (the 3 dots) and click "MOVE" then then it will give us options on where to move it. I then chose the folder that I want and it just stays on "moving files" and never does. Can anyone assist on how to fix this issue? It's really slowing me down at work today.
- thelondoner063 years agoNew member | Level 2
I have a folder with 55 photos in, I have been trying to delete it all day, single user, no business license or paid version, can't delete a single thing
- skyvue623 years agoNew member | Level 2
I'm getting the too many files to delete also. There is something going on. It will let me delete 1 file at a time. Never done this before. Something's up.
- middleground3 years agoNew member | Level 2I’m trying to delete some files but cannot (I used to be able to do so before).
In the ios app, after selecting delete, there is a loading icon but after it goes away, the files remain. On the website, when I try to delete a file I get an error message saying “couldn’t delete 1 item”.
I own these files, they are uploaded to my folder through my own dropbox app. Until Nov 1st I was able to delete these files so it seems something has changed on the dropbox side.
Any help? - middleground3 years agoNew member | Level 2Rather mysteriously it has started working again. Looks like there was an outage?
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