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joe_scotto
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

How do I delete or remove Vault?

I created a Vault with a pin and am able to use it... I just don't want it. How can I remove it from my Dropbox? It's cluttering up my file list.
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Daphne's avatar
Daphne
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5 years ago

Thanks for joining us here!

 

As Walter mentioned here, you should be able to remove the Vault now.

 

If you have any trouble with this, let me know - cheers!

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bhoyt47
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Walter - If i'm reading this correctly, you have exposed the ability for us to delete the vaule (and all of the files contained in it) but you haven't given us a way to extract those critically important files before we delete the folder. Unfortunately, although I've been trying to use the Vault feature since it was released, it has proven far more hassle than it's worth and what i want to do is extract my most important files from it, so that I can access them with as much ease as I did previously. Can you please explain the best way to do that?

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    Lusil
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    5 years ago
    Hey bhoyt47, thanks for joining us on this thread. 

    Could you clarify if you're having trouble manually moving the files out of your Vault folder?

    Do you get any error messages by any chance?

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