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threegreens
10 months agoExplorer | Level 3
How can I recover a deleted folder?
I had a folder, Pictures, with all my family photos going back one hundred years. I am 85 and did not understand how Dropbox works so I deleted the folder after being told Dropbox was full. It delete...
Megan
Dropbox Staff
I'm afraid that in this case, and since the account was already full what happened was that the content was never uploaded to your Dropbox account threegreens.
Had it been uploaded, you should be able to see some sign of it in the pages mentioned above.
threegreens
10 months agoExplorer | Level 3
If it was not uploaded to my Dropbox account then it could not be deleted within Dropbox. It was found by me in Dropbox and deleted. I immediately checked my recycle bin and it was not there so where is it when it was deleted from Dropbox
- Jay10 months agoDropbox Staff
Could you clarify what you mean by 'deleted within Dropbox'?
Did you delete the files directly from the Dropbox site (and then maybe permanently deleted them), or did you delete them from your local Dropbox folder on your computer, and not the browser.
- threegreens10 months agoExplorer | Level 3
I deleted the one folder - not a bunch of files - form the Dropbox folder.
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