How to properly uninstall Fileflare
Uninstalling the app
Shopify’s enforces all Shopify all to delete a store's personal data within 48 hours of uninstallation. All your customer's data will be deleted as soon as Shopify send the request to us. This usually happens within 3 hours after the app has been uninstalled. Learn more from Shopify's data privacy.
Fileflare does NOT automatically add code to your theme
The only code snippets that you are able to manually add to your store are:
- Legacy (Classic) customer account download links – order page links snippet
- Legacy (Classic) customer account download links – “View all downloads” link
- Custom CSS styling for the download button
- Custom CSS styling for the download page
- Shopify order confirmation email
To remove them, simply:
- Go to your Shopify dashboard
- Go to “Online store” > “Themes”
- Click “Actions” > “Edit code”
Remove the customer account download links – order page links snippet
Old method (discontinued by Fileflare mid-2024)
- Go to the “Customers/order.liquid” or the “main-order.liquid” file
- Many new Shopify themes use main-order.liquid
- Some third-party and older themes use customers/order.liquid
- Find the code snippet:
`<div id='digitalAssets'></div>`
- Delete this code and click “Save”
- Done!
New method
- Go to the “Customers/order.liquid” or the “main-order.liquid” file
- Many new Shopify themes use main-order.liquid
- Some third-party and older themes use customers/order.liquid
- Search for the text:
apps/digital-downloads
It will look something like this:
<a href="/apps/digital-downloads/orders/{{ order.id }}">
<button>View downloads</button>
</a>
- Delete this code and click “Save”
- Done!
Remove the customer account download links – “View all downloads” link
- Search for the “main-account.liquid” file.
- Search for the text:
apps/digital-downloads
This is the link that will need to be removed. It may be inside a button code snippet, an example below:
<a href="https://example.com/apps/digital-downloads" >
<button>View all downloads</button>
</a>
Remove the custom CSS for the download button
- Go to your root CSS file. It is sometimes called “base.css”.
- Remove the code marked with #digitalAssets:
#digitalAssets {
--dda-color-100: #F7F9FC; /* Button background color */
--dda-color-200: #E2E7F0; /* Button border color */
--dda-color-400: #CBD2E0; /* Button hover color */
--dda-color-600: #2D3648; /* Button text color */
}
Remove the custom CSS for the download page
- Find your root CSS file. It’s sometimes called “base.css”
- Now remove the code that is related to "dda" or "fileflare"
You will find all of the code snippets in this guide.
Shopify order confirmation email
It's possible for a merchant to add customisations to their Shopify order confirmation email. If you have added the Fileflare code to this email tempalte, then you can remove it easily.
- Go to Shopify settings
- Go to "Notifications"
- Go to "Customer notifications"
- Go to "Order confirmation"
- Click "Edit code"
- Find the code that includes "Fileflare". It will look similar to this:
<!-- BEGIN Fileflare code -->
{%- assign has_digital_product = false -%}
{%- for item in line_items -%}
{%- if item.requires_shipping == false -%}
{%- assign has_digital_product = true -%}
{%- break -%}
{%- endif -%}
{%- endfor -%}
{%- if has_digital_product -%}
<table class="button main-action-cell">
<tr>
<td class="button__cell">
<a href="https://www.storedomain.com/apps/digital-downloads/email-downloads/{{ id }}" class="button__text">Download your files</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
{%- endif -%}
<!-- END Fileflare code -->
Updated on: 30/06/2025
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