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I unlinked my computer from Dropbox and now a lot of my desktop files are gone
Thanks in advance! I recently took an online art class, that the teacher uses Dropbox to send us her files. I clicked the link and created an account. Dropbox installed on my computer and cell (which...
Thanks to both people who helped me with ideas. The files weren't in trash but I found some of them inside a Dropbox folder and was able to go in and drag them out on the desktop. I will give up on the others.
I removed Dropbox from my cellphone apps and from the desktop programs.
The community is amazing for helping me! Thanks again!
I am currently having the same issue. I had no idea that downloading the app to my phone would transfer thousands of my photos to my dropbox, leaving me to buy more storage. I guess this is the way they gain more revenue. Nonetheless, it is not very pleasant, and I cannot delete all at once; you only get a few at a time to delete. Also, when you select three boxes, it won't record the selections and wipe the elected photos chosen, only to repeat the processes repeatedly until you can finally delete four or eight photos.
I am sure this is a good company HOWEVER this caused a total nightmare for me. It took days and days and time I didn't have. Plus I am not totally sure I got everything back. This is an issue that need to be addressed by the programmers immediately. I know a little about walkarounds in cases like these and got most of the files back, but some people don't. This is unacceptable! I didn't give this program permission to grab everything off my desktop, there were some important private files. More importantly, this does not seem to be an isolated experience. So sorry this happened to you! On the plus side the immediate response from members was outstanding but the solution was.........NOT...... buy more space so it could finishing downloading the massive amount of files; even though I was not going to be using the program after I got my files back. Hopefully you will have also resolved your issue by the time you get this. Take care!
Does anyone from Dropbox even ever look at these messages?
I've got the sameproblem too! Install Dropbox and have it immediately start downloading files. And from external drives of already filed material even!!!
It's STILL backing up stuff I don't want it to back up and nobody here has really told me where to go in the program to actually STOP this without disconecting myself completely from the internet.
Help please??? I to am i71 years old and this has left a very bad taste in my mouth.
As part of a promotion when buying a new comuter from HP I was offered 100 gigabytes of storage "free" for 1 year. All I've seen the program do is suck up my bandwidth and drain my drives, and use up all that bonus storage.
I THOUGHT DROPBOX WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE GOLD STANDARD OF STORAGE!!! Now I ddon't think I could EVER recommend this program to ANYONE else!
If staff is reading this...thank you for nothing!
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Maddogg, are you referring to the external drive backup feature, or something else?
Could you clarify what you mean when file are downloading to your machine?
