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anastrophe
Helpful | Level 6
1 year ago
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"View your recycle bin for Dropbox" - how can I disable this?

I'm not sure if it's a recent addition or if I simply didn't notice it before, but recently, at the bottom of the open "Recycle Bin" on Windows, it has a bar along the bottom that says "View your rec...
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  • TNTyce's avatar
    TNTyce
    1 year ago

    I found where this problem is coming from and located.

    If you have done anything with sync setting in Dropbox, this will appear in registry.

    Delete ONLY the blue highlighted entry RecycleBinUrl.

    It should then disappear in the Recycle Bin explorer area.

    It worked for me.

    FYI... IT IS NOT A WINDOWS OS level problem. It is created by Dropbox.

     

TNTyce's avatar
TNTyce
Helpful | Level 6
1 year ago

I found where this problem is coming from and located.

If you have done anything with sync setting in Dropbox, this will appear in registry.

Delete ONLY the blue highlighted entry RecycleBinUrl.

It should then disappear in the Recycle Bin explorer area.

It worked for me.

FYI... IT IS NOT A WINDOWS OS level problem. It is created by Dropbox.

 

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_eternal
New member | Level 1
1 year ago

Thanks for finding the solution (a solution to a very stupid problem, I might add).

For the sake of making it easier to copy-paste for other people, here's the registry address: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SyncRootManager

You can also ctrl+f for RecycleBinUrl, but please make sure you don't accidentally delete a key with the same name for some other application.

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