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Lisa M.47's avatar
Lisa M.47
New member | Level 1
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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brian m.52
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

It has happened to me again.  Poof and a folder is gone. Somehow dropbox doesn't like something on one of my computers and deletes a whole folder. It is getting annoying. And I agree that I won't be able to figure it out and it is a dropbox bug.  Obviously dropbox does not interact well with another program.  If dropbox could tell us what the bug is, we could fix it.  Until then I agree that if we want to save our files we need to move to another syncing program which is annoying.  A little service could go a long way on this issue.  

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