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Cannot find files I thought I'd been saving to Dropbox on my old computer which won't let me in.
Cannot find files I thought I'd been saving to Dropbox on my old computer which won't let me in. Had to buy a new computer; on it now but when I login to Dropbox, I don't find my files. I was using...
Hi Mark,
I'm not sure about the quota. The only large files I'd been saving into the Dropbox folder on my old computer were my novels, and they were 200,000 words, 230,000 words, and 395,000 words, plus maybe 30,000 words from the fourth one I started. Even though those are long novels, the memory taken up from each is in the MB range, not GB, correct? And isn't the quota for Dropbox accounts created around 2010 roughly 2-3 GB? My files contained no photos and hence were not huge in data size. It was all word processing. It's possible my computer itself was running out of space, but I never got an error message when saving my work to the folder in 'This PC'. Whether it's running or not, I couldn't say, because I'm not sure I'd ever opened these files from the Dropbox folder after saving them into it. I always asked the Writer program to open the files, and it would. I had not accessed any Dropbox account for at least a couple of years from anywhere other than my old computer which won't let me sign in after 10-15 attempts.
- Mark
Super User II
I couldn't say, because I'm not sure I'd ever opened these files from the Dropbox folder after saving them into it.
This is very likely to be the issue.
If you didn't open and edit the files inside of Dropbox you have not updated the files in Dropbox. Dropbox does not have a link to any other file on your machine. It can ONLY update and edit things that are inside its own directory. So if you saved a copy of it and then opened the file using a different application BUT hadn't told that application to change where it opened it from then you have ended up with 2 versions of the file on your machine.... one in Dropbox that was dated when you copied it over but hasn't updated and the other you did open, update and change.
