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graestar888
Explorer | Level 4
25 days ago

I tried to use Dropbox Rewind for a folder, but it throws an internal error.

Hello community, Seems like I am not the only one. Accidentally deleted a large critical directory (19GB) on my local machine and managed to stop the sync completing fully. Tried on the web b...
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graestar888
Explorer | Level 4
25 days ago

Oh and last point, I didn't need to halt the sync, once the Rewind was confirmed to have completed, you do need to let the sync update across all your platforms, as long as you don't touch Dropbox during that time, the Rewind should be the last process you initiated and therefore being the latest state that the cloud directory should be returned to.

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