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Shebabe03
Explorer | Level 4
8 months ago

Can deleted photos be retrieved from Deleted Files?

3 days ago I deleted some individual in-named, un-filed single iPhone uploaded pictures. A few minutes ago I tried retrieving some from the deleted files section and after adjusting the filters, noth...
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Mark
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8 months ago

Hi 

You can undelete any file from the deleted section of the folder you deleted them from - the Photos pane is just an amalgamation of all photos on your account. So if they auto uploaded from your phone and you deleted them from the folder they were in you will need to go to Camera Uploads to restore. 

Another hint is to look at http://www.dropbox.com/events and see if you can recover from there :)

https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/recover-deleted-files-folders 

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    Shebabe03
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 months ago

    Thank you. Under the refine section I chose both camera uploads and phone uploads. I forget which one but one said uploads had ALL my named folders pop up under it. Which threw me off because I didn’t delete any of my files or their contents . Maybe I have two sets of singles. One where I initially upload and others I allocated to different files over time and didn’t realize it. I’ve had the app since 2016. Use too had to go to website to get deleted pictures. 
    Thank you for your help. 
    I’ll keep in touch with the outcome. 
    shebabe

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