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Michael T.10
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Dropbox seems to have forked my Documents folder

I've been using Dropbox for years and generally not had problems with it.  But today I have a problem.  I have a documents folder that contains a GitHub directory that's full of local GitHub reposito...
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Tom S.18's avatar
Tom S.18
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

This same thing happened to my account.  I have had Dropbox for several years  I thought it was the greatest way to store files in the cloud and have them on my PC also.  I had a great file system worked up, UNTIL DROPBOX DECIDED TO UPLOAD ALL MY FILES rearrange them dis organize them, and now i cannot find most of them.  Trying to do my taxes, and guess what,  CANNT find my files.  PLEASE, I need help.

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