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Larry90
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3 years ago

Formatting my hard drive

If I format the hard drive on a computer with dropbox, will the files in dropbox of other shared devices be deleted simultaneously?
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Rich
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3 years ago
Larry90 wrote:
If I format the hard drive on a computer with dropbox, will the files in dropbox of other shared devices be deleted simultaneously?

No, but you should uninstall Dropbox first, or disconnect the computer from your account on your Security page, just to be safe.

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