You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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HuS
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12 months ago
Status:
Investigating

Safeguard data on sudden drive-failure to avoid accidental deletions

The following issue cannot get solved by using any setting inside Dropbox or by external precautions – such as alerts on OS-level. Staff should find a support ticket on the problem I describe. ...
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Nancy
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11 months ago
Status changed:
Gathering Support
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Investigating
We checked this further, and our team is actually looking into optimizing this behavior, so that the external drive unplug (in the case where the drive is storing a Dropbox root folder) isn't registered as a delete and behaves in a more user-friendly way.
 
We don't have a definite timeline as to when we'll implement this, but we'll keep you updated!
 
Besides that, if you’re on a team on Dropbox Standard / Business who have purchased the Security add-on, or on a team on Dropbox Business Plus, Advanced or Enterprise, then you should receive a security alert in the case of a mass deletion, so that you can restore the files as soon as possible.