Given a Dropbox folder which has many hidden deleted files/folder, currently I have to delete them manually sub folder by sub folder.
Is it possible to delete them all quickly?
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To test your problem,
- I created multiple sub-folders (non-empty) within a TEST folder.
- I selected the TEST folder and then clicked DELETE from the drop down list.
ALL folders/sub-folders within disappeared. I did all this from within the web interface.
If someone else can verify this behaviour, I'd be much obliged.
UPDATE
- Enable Keyboard Shortcuts from within Account Settings
- Next, switch to your folder list and click SHOW DELETED FILES or just press d
- Press p to SELECT ALL DELETED ITEMS
- From the MORE dropdown, click permanently delete
This ought to make your task easier.
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Yes, right. But you are going just a half of my way. The rest thing to do is to click on
More actions-Show deleted fileand then, select thegrayitems and choosePermently delete. Hope it's clearer to you now.– Nam G VUDec 25, 2010 at 7:23 -
Thank you! That's very helpful. Would you give us the whole list of the hotkey?– Nam G VUDec 26, 2010 at 7:24
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Awesome. How did you know that! It looks like a hidden feature of dropbox. I can't find it anywhere on dropbox homepage.– Nam G VUDec 30, 2010 at 3:29
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1Well...most sites that have keyboard shortcuts will display a help list when you press "?"– SparxDec 30, 2010 at 13:41
Keyboard shortcut doesn't work. Most easy way: click sort all files by "Kind" column -> select range of all deleted files (click first, hold shift + click last in list). Then you can permanently delete them. If you don't select continuous range of files it doesn't show the "permanently delete" option.
