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Pierre15
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

My file has gone missing from everywhere

Hello, Up until a few days ago, my resumé was in the Dropbox folder on my Mac. It mysteriously disappeared from every location. I know I did not delete it. It's not in a trash bin anywhere. Not in...
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Pierre15
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

It was synced because I accessed it multiple times over the last couple months. This was my résumé that I was working on and sending to jobs. 

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Rich
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3 years ago
Pierre15 wrote:

It was synced because I accessed it multiple times over the last couple months.

But where did you access it? Were you always opening the local file in your Dropbox folder, or were you accessing it on the Dropbox website? Did you ever see the file on the website?

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