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Annafi
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Accidentally Deleted Account and Data - Need Help Restoring

Hi Dropbox Community, I accidentally deleted my account associated with the email address [removed per Community Guidelines], along with all the data stored in it. These files are very important to...
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Annafi's avatar
Annafi
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Hello, 

While losing the account is not too severe, the documents are extremely important. Is there a way to recover them? I deleted the account today, and the other linked profiles still have access to the folders, but unfortunately, all the documents from the folders are gone. 

Thank you. 
Anna [removed per Community Guidelines]

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Nancy
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2 years ago

Sorry for jumping in, Annafi. Since restoring the deleted documents would require access to the Dropbox account in question, I’m afraid there’s not much that can be done in this case. 

 

If you deleted your Dropbox account, then it’s not possible to restore it or any of the files/folders that were located within it.

 

Feel free to check your computer(s) though, in case you had the Dropbox desktop app installed. If your files were synced there, then you may be able to access them from your local Dropbox folder.

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