I can't back up the Documents folder, if the Dropbox folder is on the D\: drive.

HI Niall D., thanks for the details. At this point it might be better for the support team to look into this in more detail.
You can contact them directly via this link, and they'll be able to investigate further.

I don't recognise any of the deleted file names on Events Page, a lot of them seem to be 'manifest.json'. I didn't look at all of them as there are over 4,000.

Sending you a screenshot, would that mean showing the contents on this public forum?

Turns out that bottom folder in the first screenshot has a Documents folder, it seems to match the Documents folder in the middle.

On Events Page it shows 4680 was deleted on 20 March, same as email said.

If you go to your Events page here, you should be able to see the specific deletion event and check more details on the files that have been deleted. 

As for the two folders that you mention, can you perhaps send me a screenshot of what you see on your end? Just to have a visual. 

I’d also like a screenshot of your Backups page here.

I see now I have 2 Document folders in D:\Dropbox\

One I must've made years ago, it doesn't look to have much in it but when I look under Properties it says it's 46.2GB, 38,025 files, 5,230 folders - it certainly doesn't look like there are that many when I open the folder (under Properties it says D:\Dropbox).

For the other Documents folder it's 3.16GB,  8,835 files, 2,120 folders - when I look in the folder I see what I moved from C:\ recently and more than in the other Documents folder (under Properties it says D:\Dropbox).

Both hold more files than what the email said.

This is confusing...

As far as I know the deleted files are in the Documents folder ( which is currently in D:\Dropbox\Documents (2026) ), how can I see the total number of files in the folder to see if it matches what's in the original email?

I need a holiday!

Hi from me, too! I’d like to clarify one thing first; the files that you mentioned having been deleted, were they previously in the Documents folder you had backed up with Dropbox?

Did you follow these steps, in order to disable your Dropbox backup, before moving the Dropbox folder to your D: drive?

The files that Dropbox deleted as a result of me moving to D\:, what happens if I don't restore them?

Are they the original files?

How important is the backup.

If I have a power cut, do I lose everything?

I totally understand your frustration here, Niall.

The backup feature is just another feature of the Dropbox app, but you don't need it to sync files to your Dropbox account.

The main usability of the Dropbox folder is to sync the files you add in it to your Dropbox account, so if, for example, you have too much data in it, you might want to move the Dropbox folder to a different location that might have more available space.

I hope this clarifies things, but let me know if you still have questions.

So the only option for me is to move Dropbox back to C\:?

Why is moving Dropbox to a different drive even an option?