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Can I disable the "Delete file for everyone" message?

I am getting the error message that requires me to OK "delete for everyone" when I want to remove a file (see below). I saw the discussion board on this topic - the screen shots in the thread I read show an option to remove the message in the future. I do not see that option displayed. I need to remove this message. How?

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Daphne

Hey @maxvan,

As I mentioned previously, there isn't an option to disable to notification you're seeing there at the moment. The "Delete everywhere" notification that has been discussed on the Community does have this option. However the notification you're seeing is a different one that currently doesn't have the option to disable it.

Sorry that I can't help any further with this!

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Daphne

Hey there @maxvan,

The notification you're seeing is because the file you're deleting is shared with other users. The discussions I believe you're referring to is the "Delete everywhere" message that has been discussed previously on the Community.

The "Delete everywhere" message can be disabled by checking the appropriate option within the dialogue box of the message. However, there currently isn't a way to disable the specific notification that you are seeing there.

I've made sure to pass this along to our dev team for review to see if this can be implemented in a future version of the desktop app. Sorry that I can be of much more help here!

Let me know if you have any other questions - Thanks!

maxvan

Hi Daphne,

Thank you. Unfortunately there is no checkbox within the dialogue box I see in the desktop version. This message appears everytime I delete a file which indeed is shared with other users. What solution exists to solve this? It is very time consuming to click repeatedly on this dialogue box.

Thank you

Daphne

Hey @maxvan,

Sorry that I can't help any further with this!

maxvan

OK I hope this gets fixed soon. It is new to me - perhaps because I upgraded to Windows 10 recently.

Darren R.

I am in the process of deleting approx. 2,000 files. Every 30-50 files, I have to answer the question whether I want to delete them for everyone. I mean, '46 others'. Which others? I don't even know, so the message is totally useless. Please can you make it go away? Just delete them for everyone, every time. Nobody is ever going to want to click 'cancel' on this dialog.

arathra

I've got to ask the same question. It's a pain in the arse to have this message pop up every few minutes with no option to disable.

DWW

This is unacceptable, how can it be communicated to DropBox to eliminate this defect (defaulting to this message)?

asfsfsgweffsd

I agree, it's now 2023 and there's still no option to disable this message. Please make this possible.

There's lots of competitors to dropbox now, perhaps it's time to take another look for a cloud platform that doesn't plague me with such messages when I try to clean up my folders!

KazooGuy

July 2024 and this still hasn't been addressed by Dropbox. We do a lot of file management and this constant notice popup is a real inconvenience. Please add a means of disabling it.

JockAustralia

I have two PC's, both logged into Dropbox. Both Windows 11. One of them puts this (cripplingly inefficient) message (delete for everyone?) up for every file I want to delete when in Dropbox folders in windows explorer, and thankfully the other PC does not. So there must be a setting somewhere that is causing this...?

Jon_DFH

5 years later and this is still an issue. I have a laptop running Windows 11 and I do not get this pop up notification when deleting files. However I just got a new desktop PC at my office, also Windows 11, and for some reason deleting anything from Dropbox I am forced to confirm my intent to delete with this obnoxious notification. I am the admin of my company Dropbox account and I see no option to disable this anywhere.

Fern Photography

I have just deleted 20,000 files and am getting this popup for nearly every file. How on earth am I meant to be able to work this month?