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SealResearcher
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Unlinked dropbox with my laptop and now files have disappeared from laptop

Hello,

 

I unlinked my laptop to my Dropbox account because I thought that it would remove my files from Dropbox and keep them on my laptop exclusively. However, now that it is unlinked, all of my files that were backed up by Dropbox have been removed from my Desktop and I can only view the files in the Dropbox folder within File Explorer. How do I restore my files in the way that they were organised before. This is very important since I run code with filepaths to data files for work. 

 

Thank you advance for any advice/help!

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1 Reply

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    2 years ago

    Hi SealResearcher, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Did you have Dropbox Backup enabled on your account? 

     

    Are you seeing any deleted files on your machine or account?

     

    This will help me to assist further!

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