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Empty Folders Keep being deleted
A week ago loads of empty folders I have on Dropbox were deleted. Initially I spent loads of time looking at them and restoring them, Dropbox then deleted the ones I had restored. Now I waste no time and I restore the empty folders and Dropbox then deletes them a day or so later. It is happening so fast that it cannot be a human but I don't know how to stop Dropbox deleting the folders I want - even if they are currently empty
13 Replies
- Mark
Super User II
Have you restored one and then clicked on 'Restore Previous Versions' to see which device is doing it?
My guess here is a corrupt database is doing it
It is only Folders that have nothing in that are deleted. I can find nothing to tell me about the version history on empty folders (or maybe once I have restored them there is no version history as they are back to the original first version)
- Rich
SimonThursday wrote:
It is only Folders that have nothing in that are deleted. I can find nothing to tell me about the version history on empty folders
If it's the same folders being deleted, but a text file in one of them and see if it still gets deleted. If it does, look at the version history of that file to see which device is deleting the file, because Dropbox is not able to delete a file or folder on its own.
