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LaTay's avatar
LaTay
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

I was uploading files from my external drive to the Dropbox website, and they're all missing.

I have been uploading files/folders to my new Dropbox account and have an external hard drive that I've been uploading to Dropbox. I've been doing it slowly, one folder at a time or several files at ...
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Mark
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7 months ago

How did you upload them LaTay​ ?

Was it the website or using the desktop software? If its the desktop software they will have been moved from the hard drive in to the Dropbox folder. 

If it was the website they wont have been moved, so should still be on your HDD, but will have stopped uploading as soon as internet dropped. 

What is http://www.dropbox.com/events showing?

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