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Jonathan M.2
New member | Level 2
11 years ago

Does renaming a folder cause all files in folder to be deleted from old, re-added to new?

I have a shared folder that was named "research" and that really turned into a folder to hold all my stuff on academia. It is shared across a few accounts that I control (not sure if that is importa...
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Karen D.20's avatar
Karen D.20
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

I did a mass renaming and moving of folders last night. This morning I received an email:. See below. Does this mean I DELETED FILES? Or is it just a warning I can ignore? Thank you.

Karen

 

 

Hi Karen,

We noticed that you recently deleted a large number of files from your Dropbox. Deleted files are saved for 30 days, and can be restored anytime during that 30-day window.

Dropbox will save deleted files longer than 30 days if you've purchased Extended Version History, or if you have a Dropbox Business account.

Want to restore? Go to www.dropbox.com/trash, select the deletion event, and then click the restore link.

Learn more at www.dropbox.com/help/9132.

We thought you should know about these large deletion event(s) that occurred recently:

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