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jmur
18 days agoNew member | Level 2
SyncOperations.plist.lockfile delete
I just received an email from "no-reply" at Dropbox stating... You recently deleted 3948 files from your Dropbox account. If you want these files back, you can still restore them until 12/12/2025. ...
- 18 days ago
Thank YOU all. Really appreciate your help on this.
According to the events, after I dropped a legit file into a folder, I followed up 2 minutes later by dropping 3479 files. And the contents seem to be structure files of my Apple address book as well as contacts. That kind of makes sense because my contacts suddenly aren't syncing between my devices any more.
Then it says I deleted them at 1pm and kept adding/deleting from them on until a day later. Very strange.
jmur
17 days agoNew member | Level 2
Separately, my icloud contacts between my laptop and my mac mini are off. I've gone through all the typical steps to reconnect them and at one point, I made an archive of my contacts and moved it to DB to transfer over to my other computer. I'm guessing this might have been part of the issue but as far as I know, there we only 2000 contacts and no SyncOperations.plist.lockfile file in it.
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
17 days agoHey jmur!
Hm, this might have been the culprit. In any case I'd suggest restoring your files -if you haven't already- and checking them individually from there.
If you need help restoring your content, please let me know and I will be more than happy to assist every step of the way. 😇
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