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elisabetta23
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3 years ago
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What happens if I disconnect my account from my desktop?

Hi everyone. I hope you can help me. my question is this: if I disconnect my account from Dropbox on my PC and delete all the folders on my PC... will I lose the contents?
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 years ago

    Hi elisabetta23, thanks for messaging the Community!

     

    As Rich stated, if you sign out of the desktop app first, and then uninstall it for good measure, you can delete the files in your Dropbox folder, and the files on the site will be unaffected.

     

    If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi elisabetta23, thanks for messaging the Community!

 

As Rich stated, if you sign out of the desktop app first, and then uninstall it for good measure, you can delete the files in your Dropbox folder, and the files on the site will be unaffected.

 

If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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