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adavid
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3 years ago
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Uninstalling the desktop app from my computer

Hello community. Thank you in advance for your help. So I downloaded Dropbox on my Windows laptop and on the same day I started having trouble with the effectiveness of my laptop. I made a general ...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago
    adavid wrote:

    Can you help me know how to uninstall and delete the Dropbox folder from my computer without damaging any files inside the cloud?

    As long as you've uninstalled the Dropbox application, it's safe to delete the local Dropbox folder.

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Rich
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3 years ago
adavid wrote:

Can you help me know how to uninstall and delete the Dropbox folder from my computer without damaging any files inside the cloud?

As long as you've uninstalled the Dropbox application, it's safe to delete the local Dropbox folder.

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