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ang133
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

How do I turn off Dropbox on the free account?

Dropbox is a monster. It's on my desktop and every file goes through it. But when I click on it there are no files in it. I somehow managed to get it not to add files to the online app because I was ...
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ang133
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

I can't locate my files online. The online version has 2 files--photos and public. My computer has multiple files. So all the deleted files are not discoverable in the online app. They disappeared from my computer.  I would like to delete dropbox but if I do that I would have to get a large thumbdrive and copy my computer files entirely. I just think dropbox is annoying. It's like a virus on my computer.

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ang133
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Also, I paid for a program to find the deleted files on my harddrive, but that was unsuccessful because they found file titles but they were damaged when I tried to open them or the content was too mixed up to read.

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