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lilbeedee
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8 years ago
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I'm having trouble deleting photos from my account

I have googled for how to delete photos in Dropbox, but the answer that comes back is to click on the ellipsis, the 3 dots, in the upper right corner - but there is none there. There is no menu to de...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    8 years ago
    lilbeedee wrote:

    The page SAYS I'm in the Timeline...

    Do you mean the Photos page? If so, that's the problem. You can't delete from the Photos page. You can only delete from the Files view.

    If you can't find a photo in the FIles view or don't know where it is, when you're on the Photos page you can click the ellipsis and select Show in folder. That will take you to the photo in the actual folder where it resides, and you can delete it from there.

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lilbeedee
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Oh well.  This shows me my folders that contain the photos. When I check an individual photo OR click on the photo to open, I only find an ellipsis in one of two places: one is on the photo in the upper right corner, the other is on the full screen view in the lower right corner. Neither of these list "Delete" in the menu that pops up. Oh well. Fail for me.

  • atccodex's avatar
    atccodex
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    8 years ago

    Hey lilbeedee dont open the file. Just click the 3 dots before you click on the actual file. Then you will see the delete option.

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