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I thought I was deleting local files but deleted files from my Dropbox account
I have a laptop that I don't use often that's connected to my Dropbox account. I turned it on and was doing some stuff and needed to free up some space. So I went in with a disk scanner and found som...
nothing here, can't delete...
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIHave a look at Dropbox Rewind which may do it all for you in one go :)
That looks promising, except the video blurred-out the details of the files he was using, so I'm not sure how to select the files I want to restore independently of the other files I was working with. Actually, I deleted a few FOLDERS. Is there any way to simply see what FOLDERS got deleted on that date and time so I can undelete THEM? I don't know or care what the files are, but the folder trees tell me all I need to know. All of the files in question were deleted within about a 3-5 min period of time while I had other activity going on around that. And the list has 65,000+ files in it, which is quite mind-numbing since if other file activity happened to be affected at the same time, there's no frigging way I'll be able to find them. But all of those files would be in totally DIFFERENT file tree.
Is there a way to get a list of folders (their roots) that were deleted and when so I can just restore them?
Also, how do I delete a bunch of files on one machine without impacting what's on Dropbox?
- Mark
Is there a way to get a list of folders (their roots) that were deleted and when so I can just restore them?
Have you looked at http://www.dropbox.com/events ?
Also, how do I delete a bunch of files on one machine without impacting what's on Dropbox?
If they are inside of Dropbox's folder they'll update and delete across all other connected devices.
If you are trying to save space on a particular machine why not look at Selective Sync or Online Only instead?
Looks like Events might work, but it's in chunks of files. Thanks. They really need folder-based operations when you're working with tons of files. With 65k, files, I'm not going through them one-by-one. It's like cutting off a branch of a tree: I'm not interested in the leaves, just the whole thing.
For Selective Sync or Online Only, will they delete the files that are there on the local drive? I don't need them locally, but I want them on Dropbox.
