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msimunic
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
Dropbox Rewind for basic account
Ransomware encrypted all My Dropbox files. This was happening yesterday during the day. Another computer linked to My Dropbox was attacked and the process of encrypting the files was going up until t...
- 5 years ago
For how to use Dropbox rewind see: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/rewind
It rolls your account back (in the selected folders) to the date/time you set.
One thing to note tho is when you go paid nothing changes except from the time you pay you get extended version history (up to 180 days plan depenedent), but, that is not retroactive. You should be fine as the deletions only happened yesterday but I just wanted to be clear that it wont suddenly give you access to changes or files from before that :)
chinarut
Helpful | Level 6
> One thing to note tho is when you go paid nothing changes except from the time you pay you get extended version history (up to 180 days plan depenedent), but, that is not retroactive. You should be fine as the deletions only happened yesterday but I just wanted to be clear that it wont suddenly give you access to changes or files from before that 🙂
aw - this is a bit of a bummer - I actually would have forked over some $ just now to rewind a folder 2 weeks!
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