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Remolinen
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

All my photos have disappeared!

Hello,  Yesterday I uploaded 4000+ pictures to my dropbox account from my old company Iphone I had to return before having it cleaned out for the next user. I today can only find 8 pictures in my p...
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Remolinen
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago
We made the account the day before and we only have one account as well so sadly that couldn’t be it. :(
We are starting to suspect that we only previewed the pictures and that everything got deleted before it properly got uploaded.
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Lusil
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6 years ago

If the events page didn't show any record of the photos, it's very likely that the photos never made it to our servers. 

 

I just want to check with you as well if you remember seeing the photos online through the website at any point in time? 

 

Were they in a shared folder by any chance?

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