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I need help as 5 GB of photos are gone
Not sure where to post this but just noticed 5gb+ of photos are gone both from desktop and phone. I checked deleted files and events and no trace of them or any indication that they were deleted or moved. Any help appreciated!
- Update!
Just got an email from the dropbox team notifying me that I'll be able to restore all of the files that were missing. Huge thanks to the dropbox team!
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- Yes events show other activity.
- I only have one account. The last time I saw them was about a couple of weeks ago. I have 3 other folders containing photos that are still there. The photos that disappeared were all in the Camera Uploads folder.
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi JSO, if you're not seeing the missing files on the deleted files page, then there's a few possibilities as to why this might be the case:
- They were on a shared folder you don't have access to any more
- The files were deleted outside of the 30 day period
- The files were permanently deleted
Is it possible that any of these would apply to your case?
- Jay
If the files aren't on the events page or deleted files page, and there's no other information on the files being moved, then it means they were permanently deleted. This would mean that even the support team wouldn't be able to recover them, unfortunately.
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful on this matter.
Not sure how that would have happened on my end. Maybe a glitch on dropbox's end? Definitely a freak occurrence as this hasn't happened in 10 years of using db. Anyways, there's always a first for everything. I think I may have saved many of those photos to a hard drive. If not, oh well lesson learned, and maybe someone reads this and learns from this mishap and backs up their stuff on a physical hard drive also. Thanks for everyone's help here on the forum. I guess I'll check back periodically to see if anyone else has this happen to them and finds a solution.
- Update!
Just got an email from the dropbox team notifying me that I'll be able to restore all of the files that were missing. Huge thanks to the dropbox team!
