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Susan 6
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7 months ago

I'm being asked for a code that's sent to my old email address, so I can't enter my Dropbox account.

Hello, most of the files I uploaded to a Dropbox account (around 2021) was done when my account was associated with an email that I no longer have access to. I do have a few files in a separate Dropb...
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Rich
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7 months ago
Susan 6 wrote:

most of the files I uploaded to a Dropbox account (around 2021)

When was the last time you accessed that account? If it's been more than a year, the content would have been deleted for inactivity due to the account being idle.

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