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kameyering
Explorer | Level 3
24 days ago

How can I unlink my paired accounts and remove the personal from my computer?

I really feel like this should be incredibly simple and clear but I'm not getting it!

On my work PC I have 2 dropbox accounts synced (my personal and my work account) . I want to fully remove my personal dropbox from the PC without deleting the files of course. I cannot find anything on the windows dropbox app that says anything about syncing (admittedly I am a mac user and still a bit clumsy on windows) and all I can seem to do is delete files but then they are deleted everywhere.

I want to completely remove all files from my personal account from only this one computer but keep them intact online and on my personal macbook. 

I don't understand why this is so unclear but I can't figure it out!

Device
HP 
Operating System/Browser (if using the web)
Windows

2 Replies

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    24 days ago

    Hi again, kameyering!

    I think this is the setting you're looking for; can you try those steps to unlink your accounts and let me know if they worked?

    Cheers!

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
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    17 days ago

    Hi kameyering! Did you try out the steps provided by Hannah? 

    If you did, and you still need further assistance, feel free to reach back to us.

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