If you’re a member of a Dropbox Business team, your admin may have limited your ability to permanently delete files and folders, including with a data retention policy.You’re not an admin, but you’re the only person who has taken any actions on or edited the file or folder.

You’re the admin of a Dropbox Business team.You can only permanently delete files and folders that you don’t own if: You can permanently delete any file or folder that you own. Permanently deleted files and folders can’t be restored. Tap the “⁝” (vertical ellipsis on Android) or “ …” (ellipsis on iPhone/iPad) next to the file or folder you’d like to delete.įollow the instructions below to permanently delete a file or folder on.Click Delete (Windows) or Move to Trash (Mac).Right-click the file or folder you’d like to delete.Open the Dropbox folder on your computer.Hover over the file or folder and click the ' …' (ellipsis).Deleted files or folders can be restored within a certain window of time, depending on your Dropbox plan. Delete a file or folderįollow the instructions below to delete a file or folder from your Dropbox account on, the Dropbox desktop app, or the Dropbox mobile app. Not using Dropbox yet? See how Dropbox makes file recovery and history easy. Find out how to know who the owner of a file or folder is. You can delete or permanently delete any file or folder in your Dropbox account, even if it’s shared, as long as you’re the owner.

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