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Omar N.4
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

After recent Dropbox update files are gone!

Hi and good day, After the recent Dropbox update (~ a week ago), all files from nvALT are gone! (This is not the same case as: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Delete-edit-and-organize/NvAlt-and-L...
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Omar N.4's avatar
Omar N.4
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Hi and good day Hanna,

In Deleted Files there are a few folders, that I have manually sent to be deleted. So the nvALT .txt files are somewhere else.

The relevant folder is [removed] . If you can you may have a look.

It has mostly 6 ReadMes from 2014; the most recent file is [removed], about 67KB.

This file has a lot of gibberish and starts like this:
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bplist00‘

X$versionY$archiverT$topX$objects ܆_ NSKeyedArchiver— TrootÄ Ø b LTU[`cgknstu|}~ ÄÑÖâäéèîïñùû®©™8¨≠Æ≤◊›·‰ËÏÔÛˆ˙˝

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The whole content of this file: [removed]

Also a zipped version is available.


How can those files disappear just like that?

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with best regards,
Omar KN, Stockholm, Sweden

 

 

Hannah's avatar
Hannah
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3 years ago

Thanks for the update, Omar.

 

If you want, we can send you an email, so we can help you look for the files, and see what happened.

 

Let me know if you'd like us to do that.

  • Omar N.4's avatar
    Omar N.4
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Yes sure, please send me the email.

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
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      3 years ago

      You got it, Omar, I just reached out to you, so we'll continue over email. 🙂

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