A friend shared a bunch of photos with me via my DropBox account and now I want to delete them. The files are showing as "shared" in my account.
I'm concerned that if I delete the files from my account they'll also be deleted from his. As they count towards my usage it appears that they are mine to delete, but I didn't create them in the first place.
Is it safe for me to delete the files?
Best Answer
It appears that the files were not mine to delete after all.
Right clicking on the folder brings up the context menu - the first option of which is Shared Folder Options. Clicking on that option shows the following dialog:
In this case I'm the only member on the list so it's safe to delete the folder. In the other folder there were more names on the list - the person who shared the folder in the first place and others. In this case it would NOT be safe to delete the folder as it would delete it for everyone else as well.
The correct action here is to click on the "Leave folder" option. You get the option to keep the files on your computer and then on OK your usage is reduced by the size of the files that were in the folder.