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Rob N.'s avatar
Rob N.
Explorer | Level 4
7 days ago

How do I disable the "Delete file for everyone" message?

There are some old threads on this but couldn't find anything recently. A client with around a million files in Dropbox is migrating to SharePoint- not specifically because Dropbox doesn't work but because the overall M365 environment works better for them.

 

So I'm scripting synchronising by folder to SharePoint using robocopy. However, when I then delete the folder in Dropbox, I'm getting the prompt as to whether to delete for everyone. This is going to pop-up several hundreds times as that's how many individual top-level folders they have.

 

It's not like one prompt appears for all the individual deletions - it's one prompt per folder deleted. I've been testing the script and maybe deleting a folder (sometimes containing 5,000 files) every minute. But the delete prompts are only occurring every 5 minutes or so, sometimes longer. I assume that's because Dropbox is deleting the first folder (which takes 5+ mins for that many files) and then moving onto the next folder

 

How do I disable this prompt? I suspect I can't (doh!) so I might have to consider moving the folders to a "Deleted" folder which I assume won't trigger the prompt.

  • Rob N.'s avatar
    Rob N.
    Explorer | Level 4

    I've seen that checkbox mentioned in other posts but never seen it at this client. However, I've since discovered that the prompt only appears if you delete folders/files from File Explorer. If you (say) delete from the command line then the prompt doesn't appear which is fine for my scripting purposes. I suppose this makes sense - apps etc are frequently creating and deleting files (e.g. Word lock file) and if this prompt was triggered by non-user operations, the user would get very confused.

  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hey Rob N., thanks for posting here!

     

    When the pop-up window appears, you should have the option to check "Don't show this again" or something similar. 

     

    Is this the case? Can you send me a screenshot of what you see on your end, when trying to delete some content? 

     

    Let me know more!