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iasstudygroup
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Files are being deleted on their own and it's been happening for some time now

i am not deleting the file but Files in my dropbox are automatically deleted , deleted files donot carry any name ie who deleted. There seems to be major Bug .. This is happening for past 3-4 months
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Mark's avatar
Mark
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4 years ago

Dropbox cannot delete files automatically so something is happening to do it. 

 

If you click on a file and restore it and then click on 'View Previous Versions' one you will be able to see where/when it was deleted and see and by who and where. That may give some clues as to what/where and who is going doing it

  • Bach Huy Hoang's avatar
    Bach Huy Hoang
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    It may be deleted or the Dropbox system is corrupted. I just had several thousand files deleted. That incident led me to this article.
    If you are a self-delete person, you cannot delete thousands of files in many folders (not folders) at the same time

     

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