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Files and access deleted/modified overnight

JG45
New member | Level 2

My organization shares our work files in a master folder that everyone has access to. There are a LOT of folders in that space (over 500K). For the past 2 mornings, when I log in to my computer, there is a dialog box open asking me where to save files to, the team space or my personal folder. Not wanting to risk affecting the team space, I said my folder. Dropbox then created a complete duplicate of our entire team space in my personal folder. It did it again this morning, and now Dropbox is creating another full copy of our team folders under my personal folder. Obviously this means it is copying over 500K files again. The activity report also reported that I removed access to both my personal folder and the team folder this morning at 4AM, when I wasn't on the computer. Does anyone know why Dropbox is asking this question? What process is causing these copies to be made? Is it some misconfiguration in Sync?  

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JG45
New member | Level 2

I just checked the activity log for the entire account, and it says I deleted the main team folder Friday night at 12:12PM. I was not on my computer at that time. This is very confusing.

Mark
Super User II

Hi @JG45 

 

So if it says you did it then that means a device you are signed in to did it at that time. Now, its times may not be 100% accurate as it often stamps them when its finished doing the whole folder etc. 

Few things to think about - is your Dropbox on an external/USB/network drive?


 


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