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Removing a shared folder from my account
How can I remove a folder that was shared with me? without asking the sharer to remove it for me. I wanted to increase my storage since it's almost full due to the shared files. hope someone can help me with this
- If you delete a folder inside the shared folder itself, then it would be deleted for all members of the shared folder.
The folder could then be recovered from the deleted files page within 30 days of the deletion.
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- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey noragoddard, thanks for your feedback here.
Can you go to your "shared" page and click on the "..." (ellipsis) button next to the shared folder and then on "removed from Dropbox"?
This should remove the folder only from your own account.
I see where I can do that for other folders on my account. For this, though, on the "shared" page it just shows the larger folder that the folders I want to remove are inside of. It only shows me the option to remove the entire larger folder (don't want to do that).
- Walter
Hey noragoddard - could you please clarify if you're the owner of this specific folder or if it's shared with you?
Note that you can unshare a folder as long as the folder doesnât have any shared folders inside of it and the folder isnât inside another shared folder.
Walter the folder was shared with me
- Jay
Hi noragoddard, if you're seeing the 'larger' folder, which would be the parent folder on the shared page, then this means that the parent folder is the actual shared folder.
You can only remove that parent folder from your account. You can't selectively 'remove' subfolders from within a shared folder, since this would act like a normal deletion, and that deletion would affect other users.
Is this affecting your quota on your account, or do you simply not want to see the subfolders on your desktop app?
Ah, OK I see. So there's no way to remove a shared subfolder from my account, it can only be deleted.
It's affecting the quota on my account.
