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Shunket05
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago
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What does extended version history mean?

I'm very confused about the subscription for Extended Version History. I have a plus plan does it mean after a year photos or files I loaded automatically delete? I don't understand this Version Hist...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    Hi Shunket05, thanks for messaging the Community!

     

    Extended version history is used when you need to recover older files that were edited or deleted. 

     

    It doesn't mean that any files on your account would be automatically deleted after a year.

     

    Hope this helps!

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Tizzy
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Hi Jay, what do you mean by edited?  I usually edit photos on my phone in apple photos before saving onto dropbox. I'm just tossing up whether to keep this option or get rid of DB all together and go with the paid extra storage on my icloud account. Any info would be great.  Thanks.

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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi @Tizzy, this is referring to editing files that are already on your Dropbox account. 

 

If you edit files before uploading them to Dropbox, then there would be no record of that edit on Dropbox, since you uploaded the edited version.

  • Tizzy's avatar
    Tizzy
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Thank you.

  • AlanJL's avatar
    AlanJL
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    I got it now also.

    Thank you.

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