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nmbereny
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3 years ago

Files and folders disappeared

Hello,   I don't use use dropbox very often, but I have been using it since at least 2003.  When I logged in today, I found almost all of my files and folders missing and only a few from 2019 sti...
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Mark
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3 years ago

Hi nmbereny 

 

Dropbox cannot delete things - it has no capability to do so without being told to do so by somebody. 

 

What does www.dropbox.com/events show about the files? Note that if they were deleted over 30 days ago they are not recoverable. If you found things via a link then they are NOT in your Dropbox but somebody elses and so you need to get the other links to find the rest

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