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michaelytt
Explorer | Level 4
28 days ago
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My version history is missing.

Device Dell Desktop Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Windows 11 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) Current I justed edited a jpg and want to restore an earlier version. Before t...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    26 days ago

    If the file was deleted the linked event with it is also removed, so, that would explain that :)

    Pleased you found it!

    michaelytt wrote:

    How do I access events from my Drop Box account? I only seem to be able to access that from the link in your post.

    The only way is via that link I'm afraid. Dropbox have really unhelpfully removed it from the menu optuons. 

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michaelytt
Explorer | Level 4
26 days ago

Mark,

It was previously edited on Nov 17, 6 days ago. I just found a grouping of deleted files from that day from the same folder. In that group was the file I was looking for. I restored it. However, it was the same edited version from Nov 21. However, when I clicked on it, this time some version history appeared and I was able to restore the file from a Nov. 16 version!! Hooray! But very weird, that first there was no version history, and then there was some version history.

Michael

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