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threegreens
Explorer | Level 3
10 months ago

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...
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Jay
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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.

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threegreens
Explorer | Level 3
10 months ago

I deleted the one folder - not a bunch of files - form the Dropbox folder.

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