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allenvor
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

Accidentally deleted some documents, is there any way to recover them?

Yesterday I deleted some old Dropbox folders locally from my computer but somehow this also deleted my Documents folder from my Mac, which I had not actively uploaded or backed up to Dropbox in 4 yea...
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    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
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      10 months ago

      Does this mean that you see the desktop folders that you deleted, but they're empty?

      What does the "show deleted files" option show?

      • allenvor's avatar
        allenvor
        New member | Level 1
        10 months ago

        Hannahthat's correct. nothing inside the folders and nothing shows up when I selected Show Deleted Files. I redownloaded/restored the files onto my computer and that was empty too

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