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mrlouigi3
New member | Level 1
27 days ago

Restore Unsynced files

I lost a bunch of files when trying to activate selective sync to save space and I've been giving myself headaches trying to figure out how to get them back. At this point I would love to just upgrad...
restore
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Mark
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27 days ago

If they werent sync'd then you cannot recover via Dropbox I'm afraid. 

Dropbox doesn't know the exist, it has no way to recover what isn't on the cloud. 

Sorry :( 

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    mrlouigi3
    New member | Level 1
    27 days ago

    The files were in Dropbox. Lost access somehow when I did selective sync trying to free up space.

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      Mark
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      27 days ago

      If they were on Dropbox use www.dropbox.com/events to find them and you can restore from there. 

      Or go to the directory they were in and click on 'Show deleted files'. 

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