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LabelsRus
7 years agoNew member | Level 2
Searching within deleted files
How do I search by file name in deleted files? When I use the search bar it searches not-deleted files, and as far as I can tell all I can do is sort deleted files by date range. I have no clue what ...
- 7 years agoHi there, depending on your plan you could have recovery periods from 30 days to 120 days, and potentially longer if you purchased Extended Version History before the new plans came out.If you use the search bar, the deleted files will appear at the bottom of the list in grey, so you can check those grey files for the one you’re looking for.Hope this info helps!
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
3 years agoHi simplyvince, happy Tuesday!
Your feedback regarding this has been very valuable and I will endeavor to make sure your voice is heard.
I will pass on your comments to the relevant departments so we can continue to improve.
I hope this helps!
Mike K.61
3 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Years of user complaints about this and the best we can get is "Go post this again somewhere else and users can vote on it there!" like this entire thread (one of several on the same complaint) doesn't exist or doesn't matter to you, or an occasional "I'll pass it along and maybe someday if you're lucky and the stars align correctly and we have nothing better to do and the fancy strikes us, maybe the development team will think about implementing this essential feature!"
YOUR USERS ARE COMPLAINING. THEY HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS. WILL YOU LISTEN?
This is downright user-hostile. I need to be able to search for a deleted file by name. I can't understand why DB is so opposed to implementing something so crucial that's been missing for so long.
Meanwhile you're rolling out all kinds of complicated nonessential bells and whistles that have nothing to do with file syncing.
You advertise that we can pay for longer-term file recovery, and then, effectively, provide no practical way to actually do it, unless you have superhuman memory and can remember which of your many thousands of folders it was in and the exact date you deleted it (challenge: try, using just your memory, to recall even the month that you deleted some random file last year), or have time to scroll though a chronological-only list of, in my case, literally hundreds of thousands of deleted files, hoping to find the one needle you need in that unmanageable haystack.
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