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SixtyFour
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Cannot Restore Deleted Files

Hi Everyone.   I had a hard drive failure and when the drive died Dropbox saw the missing files and began deleting them. I didn't catch it until about 60k of files were deleted from Dropbox.   ...
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Mark
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4 years ago

Just to explain how this works.... Dropbox restores things quickly back to the website/cloud - however, it then takes time (sometimes) to restore back to connected devices as that part is linked to how quick peoples internet connection is 🙂

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SixtyFour
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Thanks for the reply. This was on the website with no  devices connected. it took a few hours to restore about 40gb of data and there was no indication it was working other that random missing files appearing back into my files over a few hours.

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