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anonymous
3 years ago

Was my account deleted due to inactivity?

I had a gmail Dropbox account before many years and this year when I tried to login with my gmail Dropbox sent me an email "Welcome to Dropbox...". Does that mean that this account has been deleted d...
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Rich
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3 years ago
@nikolagpetrovv wrote:

Does that mean that this account has been deleted due to inactivity and when I signed in it reactivated the account ?

Most likely, yes. If you hadn't signed in to the account within the last 12 months, it would have been deleted due to inactivity. When you try to sign in to an account that was deleted, the account is re-opened as a new, empty account.

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