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Uriel1
Helpful | Level 6
2 months ago

Dropbox deleted thousands of files on his own

Hello, I have a desktop PC with 2 users and Dropbox. Dropbox is synced into D drive, and both users are syncing the same folders. 2 days ago, I configured to sync additional folders, into my D Dri...
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Mark
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2 months ago

Dropbox cannot delete things on its own; it can only replicate what it's told to do - so something has told Dropbox to delete files.

How did you move the directories around? Were the files sync'd to the computer, even as offline ones?  

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