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deltastar
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago
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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...
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  • deltastar's avatar
    deltastar
    5 years ago

    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!

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Maddogg
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

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's avatar
Jay
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4 years ago
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? 

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