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RdL_uy
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Re: After several years, my Dropbox files and folders are gone

Hi all,

I used to have around 2gb of information, now for some reason, all this information suddenly disapeared.

Has someone faced the same problem?

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    3 years ago

    RdL_uy wrote:
    I used to have around 2gb of information, now for some reason, all this information suddenly disapeared.

    When was the last time you accessed the account? Do you see anything on your Events page?

  • RdL_uy's avatar
    RdL_uy
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago
    Hi, I access regularly, I have not been working this days, but around 2 weeks I access and everything was there. It seems like the account has been reseted for some reason
  • RdL_uy's avatar
    RdL_uy
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago
    Hi, I had no notifications, but checked now as rich said, seems all files have been deleted, seems I have been able to restore everything.

    The strange thing of all, is that this operation (deleting) have been while I have been on vacations and for instance not close to afect anything in the account. Any thoughts about this?
  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    3 years ago

    Check at https://www.dropbox.com/account/security to make sure you can see what devices are connected and remove unused ones, 

     

    Also on one of the restored files open up the Previous Versions menu to see which device deleted it - it may be that the date shown is inaccurate

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