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schmidtsp
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Dropbox files on PC are not showing up on the Dropbox website

I recently had to re-install Windows 10. I re-installed Dropbox using the install function from the Drobbox website. What shows in the Dropbox folder on my computer does not match what shows on the w...
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Corina_'s avatar
Corina_
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago
Hi,
yes but the server showed that it was synchronized, there is some possibility the files are on the cloud and I can’t see them? And the support can help to find them?

Thanks
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Walter
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3 years ago

Hey Corina - sorry to hear about your missing files.

 

If you don't see any signs of them in your events page, it means that they never made them to our servers so it would be impossible for us to help restore them. 

 

I hope this clarifies matters! 

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