I created a Vault with a pin and am able to use it... I just don't want it.How can I remove it from my Dropbox? It's cluttering up my file list.
You can't remove it, but you can use a plugin to "remove" the element from the rendered page display by deleting the ".brws-file-row-no-access" element and clicking save. The plugin I use is called "Click to Remove Element" in Chrome and it works pretty well. Btw, I also use this to remove all their advertising for Dropbox business, paper, and all other "useful innovative features" that they add to market to us. Works really well, although it doesn't actually do anything except remove it from the rendered webpage.
What an absolute farce this is. Months in and you still can't make this right. Inn the great scheme of things, Dropbox is a relatively simple platform; how is it that you can try to screw is up so badly when adding what should be a basic feature. It's absurd; why am I paying you money when you can't manage the basics of providing a service...
Thanks for joining us here!
As Walter mentioned here, you should be able to remove the Vault now.
If you have any trouble with this, let me know - cheers!
Hahahaha, "This is a Dropbox feature, so you can't delete it". A short sentence that explains everything wrong with Dropbox.
Steve Jobs was right. Dropbox is a feature, not a product. At least, its core function is. To turn it into a product, Dropbox needs to keep on adding "features". Most of these are useless to most people, but maybe enough people find some useful enough to pay for Dropbox instead of a competitor. As for me, I really don't care what gets added as long as it doesn't get in my way, like the Vault did.
Dropbox, I pay you money for one thing: to sync my one directory across all my devices. Please do that perfectly and otherwise shut up.
Wow so much vitriol in this thread. People need to chill, as frustrating as this issue has been there is no need to get nasty. Leave that shiz with 2020 plz!
Anyway, I'm happy to report that the solution posted by Walter, which did not work for me the first time I tried but thanks to Daphne's post I tried again, actually worked! The loathsome Vault folder is gone, just like that weird uncomfortable dream I had where I was quarantined to my home for most of the year and my kids couldn't go to school and... er wait, that's still happening. Oh well, one small victory at least!
"Should be able to" - what a joke. No. Why does this need to be so bloody complicated, and why on earth can we not just drag a folder out of the cesspit vault without the contents being deleted. Super user foucssed and quality experience, Dropbox. Not everyone is an engineer.
I may have missed this answer, but is anyone losing files? Since 'joining' the vault, my files are syncing one way---- and being deleted from my hardrive. This is frightening! help
Walter - If i'm reading this correctly, you have exposed the ability for us to delete the vaule (and all of the files contained in it) but you haven't given us a way to extract those critically important files before we delete the folder. Unfortunately, although I've been trying to use the Vault feature since it was released, it has proven far more hassle than it's worth and what i want to do is extract my most important files from it, so that I can access them with as much ease as I did previously. Can you please explain the best way to do that?
Actually it's an atrociously bad feature that wasn't thought through prior to mass deployment to end users. Once unlocked the vault "closes" (locks, logs out) on its own after a very brief time, thus breaking your connection to any files you have open inside vault. This forces you to constantly log back into the vault over and over, until ultimately vault crashes or the sync ultimately breaks (which happens to me every single time on both Windows 10, Android 8.x, and Android 10). If you make changes to a document after the vault is automatically locked (or a crash happens), a second copy of the file will be created OUTSIDE the vault. Not secure! Then you have to go back and manually sync your changes to the original file that was in the vault. Pretty much any real work becomes impossible with this scenario. Maybe the feature is useful for something, but I can't find one. Then of course you can't delete the vault after it's enabled. Garbage. OneDrive is pretty stable now. May switch back to that.
If the problem wasn't bad enough, now I have multiple conflicting vaults I can't delete
How to I remove the floating Vault entry on my files list on the Android app? The app got forced updated after having to reinstall due to the very long standing "unknown error" bug.
I do not use Vault. I will never use Vault. This is not a feature I will ever have a use for.
This annoying floating "Vault" thing at the top of the file is list is purely an ad for a useless feature. How do I remove it? I'm tempted to revert back to an old version again as Photo Upload is still just as buggy/broken in the latest update.
Hi @Ilia Gildin, happy Monday!
Have you checked and performed the steps Walter provided above, in regards to either disable your Vault feature, or remove any unnecessary Vaults?
Let me know more!
