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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's avatar
Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
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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UzairH
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

This is not true in my experience. I cannot see my restored files on the website.

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