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Lisa M.47
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10 years ago
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Files are deleting themselves?? Why??

I keep seeing advisements pop up of files being deleted, but I am not deleting them.
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    8 years ago
    Recover one of the deleted files and then look at the previous version history for it. It will show you which account/device was used to delete it. That's where you need to look.
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Rich
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10 years ago

Can someone now please admit there is a problem and stop saying DropBox can't delete it?

No, because Dropbox is not deleting the file. Something on that computer (FSTRASZ-WK) is deleting it. Dropbox simply can't do it. All it can do is get a notification from the operating system that a file has been deleted and then sync that change up to the web.

You need to figure out what process on FSTRASZ-WK is deleting the file.

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