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David Harries
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
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I find I cannot delete my empty folders...

I find I cannot delete my empty folders.  The "hovering" and "three dots" option as suggested by DB does not work.  The famous three dos do not appear.  They appear to give the delete option only whe...
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  • David Harries's avatar
    David Harries
    3 years ago

    I have found out myself that the trick is to list folders in 'Home' rather than in 'All Files'  I do not think that the DB advice makes this clear.  Unfortunately, it appears to be hard to see all the folders in 'Home' rather than in 'll Files'.  Hmmm.

David Harries's avatar
David Harries
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

I have found out myself that the trick is to list folders in 'Home' rather than in 'All Files'  I do not think that the DB advice makes this clear.  Unfortunately, it appears to be hard to see all the folders in 'Home' rather than in 'll Files'.  Hmmm.

  • creativejourney's avatar
    creativejourney
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    This has been driving me absolutely crazy!!! I have followed all the instructions and tried to delete these folders on my computer and IOS and nothing worked. It wasn't clear that you had to do it from the Home page!! Thank you! 

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