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Kris_G
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Searching in deleted files by name

How can I search in the deleted files. So far the only way I can look through them is scroll. And that can take a very long time :).  
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Magrid T.
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

This is really frustrating. I find myself losing more and more hours trying to find files for my team. We have a business plan for 10+ years, and it is amazing how Dropbox can keep our deleted files (and versions of them) for a long time. But finding something among the thousands and thousands of deleted files in our history is today impossible. The search through deleted files does not work at all. I know the period, I know who deleted it - and then it loads 20 files or so on screen, and I would need to scroll, scroll, scroll through eternity (taking a while to load the next 20 names). Why can't we search the deleted files for a word? We are considering doing local back-ups again! 

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