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chadbosemanuniversity
New member | Level 2
23 days ago

How can I restore files using the Dropbox cache folder?

i have a dropbox cache which i can see because i have hidden files viewable on my computer running win11. i need to recover these files locally because my original dropbox account is no longer active...
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Mark
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Just to echo what Jay said, when Dropbox deletes an unused account it doesn't delete anything locally on the device. So you shouldn't need to use anything to get the files back - they will all be on the \Dropbox folder itself as long as they have sync'd and are set to local 

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chadbosemanuniversity
New member | Level 2
23 days ago
ok, thanks. as soon as i can i will implement you guys' tries. thanks a mil.

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