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Cannot Access Shared Files
I have nothing in my Dropbox account other than some PDFs and someone shared files with me from their account and Dropbox is forcing me to upgrade, which I refuse to do just to access some files. I d...
If you dont need edit access on the files ask the person who is sending you them to send you a shared link instead 🙂
https://help.dropbox.com/share/create-and-share-link
It that is the case, then is there a simple instruction for how to treat shared files? For example, when someone shares a file with me and I don't need it, can I just delete it from my end? Will that cause issues at the "sharers" end?
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey peteinohio, thanks for the nudge here!
If someone has given you edit access to a folder, any individual files you delete from it, will get deleted for the other members as well.
You can, however, delete the folder itself, and it will get deleted just from your account.
