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Pär T.
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Impossible to delete The old Dropbox main folder Windows 10

The support people that answer the chat have no clue about anything, thy just try to stall by asing some standrad quetsions and then wokring very hard to missunderstand whatever you say. The "real" s...
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Rich's avatar
Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
7 years ago
sniper200478 wrote:

There are no files in it. When i try to delete it, says: it's not empty.

If Windows is telling you it's not empty, then it's not empty. Do you have hidden and system files visible? It could be that there are hidden files in the folder that you can't see.

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sniper200478
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Yes, i can see all hidden and system files. 

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    sniper200478
    New member | Level 2
    7 years ago

    Problem solved. Total Commander deleted it easily.

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