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Richard S.63
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Dropbox suddenly stopped backing up Document and Download directories and wiped previous backups

Hi, just a warning.  My Dropbox suddenly stopped backing up about 95% of my Document and Downloads directories apparently a couple of days ago and deleting most files and folders including sentimenta...
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Richard S.63's avatar
Richard S.63
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

It just gets worse and worse.  You have now wiped virtually files including critical work files in Documents on my PC.  Your application is out of control.  First you delete and in some cases destroy the files beyond recovery on Dropbox and then you have synchronised those deletions on my PC.  This may now cost me my job.  This is disgraceful.

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Richard S.63
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

I have now disconnected from Dropbox.  I can no longer trust it as a reliable backup.

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