# Dissolve a family

Dissolve your Drime Family as its manager: members keep their accounts and files and go back to their own storage. Delete or keep the Family Room.

Updated: 2026-10-19  
Source: https://drime.cloud/support/family/dissolve-a-family

Only the manager can dissolve the family. Nobody's account or files are touched.

## Dissolve the family

1. In the family console, open **Settings**, then **General**.

   ![The General tab of the family settings, with the Danger zone at the bottom](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5B430JASBA3Z2Q2D31M6476/c440b7e974b5-web-family-settings-general.png)

2. Under **Danger zone**, click **Dissolve the family**.

3. Choose what happens to the Family Room.

   **Delete it** is selected by default: its files go to your trash, where you can still restore them. **Keep it** keeps it as your own workspace, renamed with "Former" before its name.

   ![The dissolve confirmation with the Delete it and Keep it choices for the Family Room](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5B572202RMEZW25JNHW6PXN/5e0f53edfa85-web-family-dissolve-dialog.png)

4. Keep or clear **Every member keeps a copy of what they added to the Family Room**.

   It is checked by default: each member's copy goes into their own Drive.

5. Click **Dissolve**, then confirm it is you.

   Drime always asks for your password here. **The family has been dissolved** confirms it.

## What happens

- Every member goes back to their own storage and is told by e-mail.
- Nobody's account or files are touched. Someone above their own storage keeps everything but cannot add files until there is room.
- Pending invitations stop working.

If you deleted the Room, its files are in your trash: see [Restore deleted files](https://drime.cloud/support/drive/restore-deleted-files).

To stay in the family and let someone else run it, [hand it over](https://drime.cloud/support/family/hand-over-the-family) instead.

## If it doesn't work

| Message | What to do |
| --- | --- |
| **You manage a Drime Family with members. Remove them or dissolve the family before deleting your account.** | You tried to delete your Drime account. Dissolve the family, or [remove its members](https://drime.cloud/support/family/manage-family-members#remove), first. |