My Dropbox account went over-quota, while syncing, and my folders are now empty.

nat_b1 wrote:

If the Dropbox folder was deleted along with the files in it, I would have expected everything to be removed from my Dropbox account

That would only happen if the folder was actively deleted while logged in and the software was running. If it was simply handed device in and formatted as Dropbox isnt running it wouldnt delete them - as Dropbox doesnt even know its been deleted. 

I had to return my work computer, so I backed up my personal files to Dropbox. After that, I signed out and deleted the Dropbox app from the computer. Then the computer was formatted. If the Dropbox folder was deleted along with the files in it, I would have expected everything to be removed from my Dropbox account. But I still see some files there, and while most of the folders remain, they’re empty.

Currently, there isn't a method to see what date your account went overquota, even on our end.

Is it possible that the files were deleted from another computer entirely, while connected to your account, outside of the version history?

Do you have any apps or services that could automatically move or delete files from the Dropbox folder?

At this point, since the files don't appear to be on the Dropbox site, I'd recommend looking into some third party recovery software to locate and attempt to restore the files deleted from your computer.

The issue is that I did not receive any notifications about being over quota until several days later. At the time, everything looked normal and all the files appeared to be there, so I had no idea anything was wrong.

Is there any way to see exactly when the account went over quota?

If the account was over quota, then it means that any new files, or edits to files, wouldn't sync these changes to the Dropbox site, meaning that there would be no history for Dropbox to recover the files from.

Since there doesn't appear to be any history in the system, likewise there wouldn't be any history for our team to recover files on our end.

- No, I am sure this is the correct account.
- I did not delete anything at any stage.

Is there truly nothing I can do? 😞  
Usually, when I'm over quota, is there anything happening in the background that isn’t visible to me?

Okay, so it has been almost 30 days since the last upload, which would be the version history for a Dropbox Basic plan. 

As you're not seeing the missing files on the events or deleted files page, then there's a few possibilities as to why this might be the case:
 

• The files are on another Dropbox account
• The files were deleted outside of the 30 day period
• The files were permanently deleted

Are any of the above options a possibility for these files?

The last files were uploaded on June 10th.
No, they were not shared folders.

Hi nat_b1, could you clarify some more details, like the approximate date of when you uploaded those files?

Were any of the folders you added the files to also shared folders?

Nothing on delete files.
Events - no deletions.

Is there a chance that somehow the files were added without the content (eventhough I remebering seeing them)?