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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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Joe A.12
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

This was happening to me and I just realised the issue (for me).

I was sick of some (Joe's Conflicted copy)._xxx Files generating themselves so I installed Blue Harvest and cleaned my Dropbox. Along with some .meta files. But I didn't realise that Blue Harvest was automatically deleting the files from there on. I just switched automatic checking off and it fixed my problem. (Might be different from yours)

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