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Sue100
8 days agoNew member | Level 2
Will deactivating my own Dropbox account delete photos from my friend's account too?
A good friend has sent me a link to share her very precious photos, so I opened a Dropbox account.
In total they are 4.3gb, too large for a basic free account, but I didn't know this until I had ad...
Rich
Super User II
8 days agoSue100 wrote:If I delete the photos and close my drop box account will I be deleting the photos on her Dropbox account too?
If you were invited to a shared folder and you added it to your account, anything you do in that folder will sync back to all other members. Add a file and it's added for everyone. Delete a file and it's deleted for everyone. If you want to remove the share from your account, you can remove your access to the share and remove it from your account.
If, however, you received a shared link to a folder, this would be a read-only method of sharing. The folder would only be in your account taking up space if you chose the save to Dropbox option. If that's the case, you can freely delete anything in the folder and it won't affect the original sender.
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