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Erwinvipglobal
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2 years ago

I accidentally Synced my iPhone and it deleted the old files

   Okay so I have 2 GB storage for many years.   upon viewing my old picture files last night, I accidentally switched the synced and override the old files wiped it out. I went to deleted files just...
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Erwinvipglobal
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago
Hello Jay,
My Drophox camera uploads was turned on and it uploaded current photos from my iPhone. It deleted the old files from Dropbox and could not find it

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Erwin
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Rich
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2 years ago
Erwinvipglobal wrote:
My Drophox camera uploads was turned on and it uploaded current photos from my iPhone. It deleted the old files from Dropbox and could not find it

Camera Uploads doesn't delete files. In fact, it's not even capable of it. All it can do is upload photos and videos.

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