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cads666
New member | Level 2
3 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.  T...
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Jay
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3 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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