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Dropbox overwrites new & local files with older versions and generates "conflicted files"-copy
I am a dropbox client for many years and have recommended it many many times, but now I'm a bit "irritated" to say least,... please help:
for unfortunate technical reasons i could'nt sync my huge d...
Vic9948 wrote:Hi
Did you find the "old" DB folder once the syncronization was completed? I have paused mine because I am afraid it will continue to delete my local files, for the moment it has not created an "old" DB folder... I am really really starting to panic...
All I can tell you is that in my case, my Dropbox folder was located in C:\Users\name\
There, my Dropbox folder with the newly synced files was visible and then there was also a "Dropbox (old)" folder that had all the stuff I was afraid I lost.
Mine had completely finished syncing and I was about to do a Windows system restore to retrieve the files I thought I had lost. I just didn't get any warning that the application was going to do that, so as far as I could tell, I simply lost all my files. But no, it kept them all in a copy.
Yubie96 wrote:
Vic9948 wrote:Hi
Did you find the "old" DB folder once the syncronization was completed? I have paused mine because I am afraid it will continue to delete my local files, for the moment it has not created an "old" DB folder... I am really really starting to panic...
All I can tell you is that in my case, my Dropbox folder was located in C:\Users\name\There, my Dropbox folder with the newly synced files was visible and then there was also a "Dropbox (old)" folder that had all the stuff I was afraid I lost.
Mine had completely finished syncing and I was about to do a Windows system restore to retrieve the files I thought I had lost. I just didn't get any warning that the application was going to do that, so as far as I could tell, I simply lost all my files. But no, it kept them all in a copy.
Thank you for answering! I was thinking of a Windows system restore as well, but I am not sure I have any "previous versions" saved to go back to, I can't find any. So I guess this is it. We should definitely get a warning from DB that this might happen, I see there are various cases with this problem, si it is not something so obvious. Thanks again!
