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Vanessa P.6
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8 years ago
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Tons of duplicate photos

I have a TON of duplicate photos on my computer & dropbox. I delted some off my computer directly but when I sync with dropbox, dropbox put them all back on my laptop. I'm wondering if I have all my...
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    Jay
    8 years ago
    You can also delete the duplicate files from the Dropbox folder on your machine, and those changes will sync up to the site, which would be easier than deleting from the site directly.
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Vanessa P.6
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

So the only option is to delete all these 10,000 duplicates from dropbox website directly???? That will take a lifetime. :(

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Jay
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8 years ago
You can also delete the duplicate files from the Dropbox folder on your machine, and those changes will sync up to the site, which would be easier than deleting from the site directly.

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