How do I remove the Never-Ending Dropbox Folder?

I don't know if this is an error with eclipse or dropbox, but I seem to be unable to delete a file folder within my dropbox folder. Somehow, there was a creation of over 8300 file folders, all duplicates of the previous folder. I tried deleting from both command line, and explorer but get the same error:

I've also deleted the share from the dropbox website, and it deleted correctly from there, but during the sync from the client (my pc) to the site there is an error:

Any ideas of what to do?

Solution 1:

Are you doing a full delete or a recycling bin delete? If it's trying to shift the folders to the recycling bin that could be causing the problem with "the destination folder...". Try Shift+Del instead of just Del.

Next, I would try booting off of a Linux LiveCD which supports NTFS (Ubuntu should work), and try deleting the folders from there. Since Linux doesn't have the same filesystem restrictions as Windows, it may be able to delete the folders even though you can't in Windows.

Solution 2:

If you are using one Dropbox profile on two or more computers at the same time, turn off all computers except one and delete the file.