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Cinosa's avatar
Cinosa
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2 years ago

Hi Hannah,

Thanks again for your help – that's great. I'll look into this further, but that may be an option.

 

When you say it may lead to file loss, do you mean on the local drive or on the Dropbox, or both?

 

Thanks,

Cinosa

Megan's avatar
Megan
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2 years ago

Hi Cinosa, sorry to jump in here!

 

Both actually.

 

Should the drive fail to connect before Dropbox loads, or become disconnected while Dropbox is running, Dropbox could see that as a mass deletion and start to delete your files from the device, and these changes would then sync to your account online.

 

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