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Abby10
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2 years ago
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My pictures are missing from a shared folder. How can I retrieve them?

Hi my pictures are missing in a shared folder nothing has been deleted. Please advise how I can retrieve it.
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    Abby101
    2 years ago

    Hi Mark I retrieved them from my husband's dropbox luckily i had them stored there too.

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Mark
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2 years ago

What does www.dropbox.com/events show?

 

Note as they are in a shared folder if the person who uploaded them has deleted and permanently deleted them they wont show on that link. Also, if they were deleted more than your revision window (or 6 months) they also wont appear. 

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    Abby101
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Hi Mark I retrieved them from my husband's dropbox luckily i had them stored there too.

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