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remove all shared links

k s.4
New member | Level 1
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Hi, I have many links in the links-list. Way to many. I take it that the files linked are accessible for anyone with the link. I want all these links removed with one command. It is too many to do it manually for each one.
Thanks

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ProblemSolved
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Please be careful as it will delete all your shared links! You have been warned! Works in Chrome (61.0.3163.100) maybe firefox and internet explorer but no links to test 😃 Open the browser's console window (right click anywhere and select inspect or control+shift+i) while in the shared links page. Paste the following code in the console command line, click enter and it will delete all shared links. 

 

Due to secure http loading jquery (as suggested by other post) does not work, so this option is fine with vanilla javascript. The script below simulates consecutive mouse clicks: 1. click the three dot button next to the link, 2. click the delete link button in the drop down, 3. click the delete link buttin in the pop up dialog box. Note that it will take a minute to execute all those but in the end the list shall be clear. Hope it save you some trouble... and again be careful

 

for( var index = 0; index < 1000; index++ )
{
   var dots = document.getElementById("bubbleDropdownTarget-" + index );
   if( dots == undefined ) continue;
   dots.click( );
   document.getElementsByClassName( "bubble-menu-item" )[0].click( );
   document.getElementsByClassName( "button-primary dbmodal-button" )[0].click( );
}

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Rich
Super User II
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There is no such command. You need to delete them individually.

Koen R.
Explorer | Level 4
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Would be nice. Can we add this as a feature request?

Clay J.
New member | Level 1
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Yeah, especially with the screenshots uploading to Dropbox automatically in OSX I have thousands of links.  I want to save the images, but I want to remove all links.  After 10min of clicking Xs and confirmation dialogs I'm only through about 1 month's worth of links, there really needs to be an easier way.

Shane H.8
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Why are these links being created? I never created thousands of links one-at-a-time, but now I can only delete them one-at-a-time? I must be missing something. Clearly there is a way to bulk create links, but no way to bulk delete them. That makes very little sense.

If Dropbox is unwilling to add a multi-select for the links, at least a universal "remove all links" feature is absolutely necessary. I am now stuck with thousands of links to content that should not be publicly available.

Francisco V.3
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Smart move by Dropbox, trying to monetize on all of us.. 

You let users upload files as easy as possible but make it extremely difficult to erase them...

"everybody's hustling for a buck and a dime" JL...

Rich
Super User II
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I never created thousands of links one-at-a-time, but now I can only delete them one-at-a-time?

Shane... The only way to create links is one at a time, manually. Links are not (and cannot) be created automatically without some input by you.

You let users upload files as easy as possible but make it extremely difficult to erase them...

Francisco... What, exactly, are you having a difficult time with? Deleting files is actually quite easy. Let us know the process you're using and what is difficult about it, and we'll try to help.

Francisco V.3
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Can you show me a way to "select all" in here. I mean, is there a way to do so rather than erasing one file by one? Thxs

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Clay J.
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Rich R., as you can see in his screenshot (and is my case as well) the Dropbox desktop client automatically uploads and shares all screenshots taken with CMD+Shift+4.  If you take lots of screenshort after a short time you end up with hundreds or thousands of individual links.  About the only way I can think of getting rid of them en masse is if you delete all the screenshots from Dropbox then the links would probably disappear.   My issue is that I don't want to delete all my screenshots, I just don't want them shared anymore.

Possible resolution:  Would moving the screenshots (like creating an "archive" folder within the screenshots folder and moving them in there) git rid of the links or do the links follow the files wherever they move within Dropbox?   Time to experiment.  It would resolve 99% of my issue, but, still, the easiest way would be simple multi-select checkboxes on that page.

Clay J.
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Yes, it works.  I moved all my screenshots to a new folder called archive within screenshots and the links disappeared.  That helped a lot, now I only have like 30 non-screenshot shared links I can delete one at a time.

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