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Simone11
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

How to permanently disable confirmation prompt for file deletion on all devices

Hello, we have dropbox api integrated to our application and recently we have started facing issues where our application cannot pull/delete data from dropbox folder unless we accept the confirmatio...
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robhfs
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

I agree, I have to delete lots of files every day for work and this is very tedious. should be a simple change to disable this.

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MrBrillo
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

This is complete rubbish. There should be a simple mechanism that stops the prompt from constantly appearing "Apply to all" would solve the issue after the first dialog box. It's just common-sense and it follows common standards - Apple even do it!

 

Just fix it!

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