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JSO
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I need help as 5 GB of photos are gone
Not sure where to post this but just noticed 5gb+ of photos are gone both from desktop and phone. I checked deleted files and events and no trace of them or any indication that they were deleted or m...
- 2 years agoUpdate!
Just got an email from the dropbox team notifying me that I'll be able to restore all of the files that were missing. Huge thanks to the dropbox team!
JSO
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Not sure how that would have happened on my end. Maybe a glitch on dropbox's end? Definitely a freak occurrence as this hasn't happened in 10 years of using db. Anyways, there's always a first for everything. I think I may have saved many of those photos to a hard drive. If not, oh well lesson learned, and maybe someone reads this and learns from this mishap and backs up their stuff on a physical hard drive also. Thanks for everyone's help here on the forum. I guess I'll check back periodically to see if anyone else has this happen to them and finds a solution.
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