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Agiic's avatar
Agiic
New member | Level 2
8 months ago

How to delete my Dropbox Backup files

Hello, I saw that my file box is almost full - 

Personal Dropbox spaceUsing 22.4 GB of 22.75 GB

Regular files (107.9 MB)

Backup (21.8 GB)

Replay (0 bytes)

Shared files (443.9 MB)

Unused space (388 MB)

I am suprised that I have Backup 21,8gb I do not see anywhere what files are those and how to delete them, because I do not use any backups on dropbox. Can anyone please tell how to delete them, because I do not know even where they are stores and there are no folders with name Backup.

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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    8 months ago

    Hey Agiic - thanks for using Dropbox and welcome to our Communirty!

    You should be able to delete your backed up files from your backups page. Can you give it a go and let us how it goes?

    Thanks!

  • bine52's avatar
    bine52
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 months ago
    • Yes, now. I didn’t see it before. What I get is very strange now.  I cannot send a photo here, right? 
  • bine52's avatar
    bine52
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 months ago

    I would like to understand/to learn how to get there myself, I don’t find my way to dropbox/backup/all from home. 

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    6 months ago
    bine52 wrote:

    I don’t find my way to dropbox/backup/all from home. 

    Click on the 9 little squares at the top right next to your image icon/letter of your name and the option is there :)

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