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sarobaali
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Files after leaving company

Hi, I was using dropbox in my computer locally and on cloud as well. I left that company now. I deleted my data from my folder. Question is if that data is retrievable for my company or not? What a...
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Mark
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2 years ago

What type of account was it? It depends upon who 'owns' the account.

 

If it was a linked business account (i.e. they paid the licence fee for it) they can recover and access it still just as they could when you worked there - they could log on as you at any point and view your data. When its a business account they own it and all of the data on it. 

 

If, however, it was a free account and you used shared folders (or a paid account you just did shared folders between) then as its your account you should be OK. 

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