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Lettuce1
2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
My existing Dropbox account disappeared along with all of my files.
Hello I experienced a really strange thing today- Dropbox disappeared from all my devices bar my iPhone where it says ‘signing out’. When I try to sign in from the web my account has gone from a plus...
Lettuce1
2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Hi Nancy
I remember now that a file appeared in my dropbox that I didn't recognise. I thought my wife may have put it there, so I opened it but quickly thought better of it and closed then deleted it. It was a few hours after that when I found dropbox was deleted from all my devices. I later found it had added all my files (although 90% are read only so empty) to my devices in a folder.
When I tried logging back in it wouldn't give me the option to put a password in with my existing email address so I tried the only option it gave me which was of signing up. I put in my existing password and same email address as before. I now seem to have an empty and basic account ( it was previously a plus account and I have emails to prove the upgrade etc). The worst thing is I now have no way of contacting support as they believe I have a basic account, so at the moment I am completely stuck and have lost a lot of valuable info which I thought was backed up for 30 days with my plus account.
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