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Rob N.'s avatar
Rob N.
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

How do I disable the "Delete file for everyone" message?

There are some old threads on this but couldn't find anything recently. A client with around a million files in Dropbox is migrating to SharePoint- not specifically because Dropbox doesn't work but b...
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Rob N.'s avatar
Rob N.
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

I've seen that checkbox mentioned in other posts but never seen it at this client. However, I've since discovered that the prompt only appears if you delete folders/files from File Explorer. If you (say) delete from the command line then the prompt doesn't appear which is fine for my scripting purposes. I suppose this makes sense - apps etc are frequently creating and deleting files (e.g. Word lock file) and if this prompt was triggered by non-user operations, the user would get very confused.

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