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cads666
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Mass deletion of pictures - is it possible?

My PC seems to sync everything to Dropbox - its caused my storage to fill up with loads of thumbnails from various apps I use. There's currently 1,700 thumbnails stored which I need to get rid of.  These all synched in March this year so I can hilight the month button and try and delete all.  This is when Dropbox says its deleting 1700 files then says it can't.  Is there another way that doesnt involve clicking small batches at a time???

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    Jay
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    2 years ago

    Hi cads666, thanks for messaging the Community!

     

    Do you have the Dropbox desktop application running and syncing on your computer? 

     

    Are you able to delete the images from the Dropbox folder, which would then delete from the site?

     

    This will help me to assist further!

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