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Impossible to Restore an External Drive Backup
Dropbox is an absolute joke! If you back up an external drive and that drive crashes, congratulations â youâve just discovered that Dropbox âBackupâ is basically useless. You cannot restore the backup to a new drive. Let that sink in. A backup service that canât restore to new hardware... Yeah, funny, I know. Your only option? Crawl to the web interface like itâs 2005 and manually download your own data. And it gets worse: you canât even download large folders. Try it and youâll be slapped with âtoo many filesâ or ZIP limit errors. So instead of restoring a drive, youâre forced to download a few folders at a time, over and over, for thousands of folders. Absolute insanity. - Easy for Dropbox support clowns to say, just do it in small batches... Right. You do understand that some of your clients have subfolder within subfolders where some of those folders have large volumes of data? Oh, duh, just download one folder at a time. OK Dropbox Support Hero, how do I reliably rebuild all this manual intervention without accidentally losing valuable data? Come on guys! You should have a restore drive option that mirrors the data on your useless server with the new drive. Dropbox Backup is not a backup service â itâs a data hostage situation. Itâs fine for a couple of documents, but if you trust it with real data, youâre asking for pain. I paid for 2TB and got a masterclass in how not to design a backup product. If you value your time, your sanity, or your data: stay far away from Dropbox Our company has almost 40 team members, we are ALL moving to Google Drive the moment our paid subscriptions end.Documents are just missing but I didn't delete them
I'm on a Windows PC with a laptop as well as a laptop and iPhone. I have a lot of documents, and something has happened where my documents literally have been deleted. I can't find a version control on missing documents. These are documents I would not have deleted because I use them in knowledge bases in my custom GPTs, and they're still there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know I'm being pretty generic, but I'm at a loss right now.
Files simply gone without any mention of them anywhere in the account
have used Dropbox for years - have thousands and thousands of files from past company photoshoots and various creative assets. Files that cost more than a pretty penny to produce. We are in those folders on a monthly (if not weekly) basis. Then - nothing. Gone. The folders still exist, but no files are showing in the folders. Nothing in the file history, events log, or replay. They are simply gone without a trace. Chat bot keeps telling me to email the latest event from the log to support team, but there is ZERO events related to those folders? And the links provided by the bot to reach out to support simply take me back to the AI chat bot. And around and around we go. with no solution, answers or files.
I lost the files in my Family group folder, after upgrading to a Dropbox team plan.
I went ahead and upgraded my subscription from a Family group to a business multi user subscription and now it has removed the Family group folder with all my files before I could transfer to my new upgraded membership folder. This is a pretty silly automation in the system, how can I transfer to my new folder if they aren't there?
Will deactivating my own Dropbox account delete photos from my friend's account too?
A good friend has sent me a link to share her very precious photos, so I opened a Dropbox account. In total they are 4.3gb, too large for a basic free account, but I didn't know this until I had added them to my account. I have now downloaded them all to a hard drive as the free 2gb Dropbox was not big enough. If I delete the photos and close my drop box account will I be deleting the photos on her Dropbox account too? I can't risk doing that!
There are files missing from a folder that I share with another user.
Hi. Some of my files have disappered but the folders are still there. A month ago a few files disappered and now a lot more is gone. It only happend in one main folder which I share. I have asked the one sharing files with me but he doesn't know.
