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mrlouigi3
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

Restore Unsynced files

I lost a bunch of files when trying to activate selective sync to save space and I've been giving myself headaches trying to figure out how to get them back. At this point I would love to just upgrad...
restore
Storage space
sync
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Mark
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11 months ago

If they werent sync'd then you cannot recover via Dropbox I'm afraid. 

Dropbox doesn't know the exist, it has no way to recover what isn't on the cloud. 

Sorry :( 

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mrlouigi3
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

The files were in Dropbox. Lost access somehow when I did selective sync trying to free up space.

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    Mark
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    11 months ago

    If they were on Dropbox use www.dropbox.com/events to find them and you can restore from there. 

    Or go to the directory they were in and click on 'Show deleted files'. 

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