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Julie smd
New member | Level 2
11 months ago

Can't access my Dropbox account to delete the backup that takes up space from it

Dropbox tried to backup my computer to a free account.  Needless to say I ran out of space.  I found and changed the option to backup.  I got a message about deleting my files.  It would have been fi...
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Julie smd's avatar
Julie smd
New member | Level 2
11 months ago

I found the option to stop Dropbox from backing up my computer.  I was asked if I wanted to delete the files.  I was not sure if that meant just the backup files or all shared files as well so I stopped.  Now can not longer even get Dropbox to open.

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