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Danudod
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10 months ago

How do we free up space on the hard drive for two large folders?

Hello Team, We have a few clients that we need to remove from Dropbox. There are two folders on their Dropbox accounts that I’ve already set to "Online Only" and also unchecked them from Smart Sync...
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Danudod
Explorer | Level 3
10 months ago

Hello Jay,
There are some huge files in the Dropbox folders. I haven't tried deleting them locally yet. I just wanted to make sure it won't affect the actual files stored in the Dropbox cloud.

So, if I completely uninstall Dropbox and delete the files locally, it won’t affect the cloud storage, right?

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Jay
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10 months ago

Yes, if the Dropbox desktop application is completely uninstalled, and then you delete the files in the Dropbox folder, it won't affect the files online.

Are you planning on reinstalling the app again once those files are deleted, or will you be keeping it uninstalled?

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