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Accidentally synced all my computer files to Dropbox
Please HELP me...
Im new to dropbox and have accidentally upload (synced) all my datas. Now my porgramms cant find the path of the folders. Is there a posibility to get my Data back on my PC?
If this isn't the right category. please repost where it should go. Recently, whenever I trashed something from my desktop, I got the same message as when you remove something from the Dropbox folder. I put it down to a glitch somewhere. But today I wanted to looki for something in a file folder in the desktop Dropbox. It wasn't there. Neither were a lot of other files and folders, too. I went to my online Dropbox and whole folders are missing there, too, most of them vital. I came to the community and found an answer about something similar. It said to look in the top folder and look for a folder named "mac" . I found it, opened it and found: the Mac folders for Documents, Downloads and Desktop with all the files in them! HOW DO I GET THEM BACK OUT OF DROPBOX???!!!!
- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey Carol G.1, thanks for reaching out to us.
It looks like you've enabled our computer backup feature on the Dropbox application.
You can disable it and move your desktop folders back to their original location, by following these steps.
The steps you sent me to has one big problem. It says click the dropbox icon and select the Sync & Backups tab. There isn't such a tab! What do I do now?
- Hannah
Hey Carol!
If you click on the Dropbox icon, then on your initials/profile pic and then on 'preferences', do you see it?
