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How to recover unsynced files after I moved them out of Dropbox?
Hi,
I have not syncronised dropbox in the last 6 months. I deceided to move out from dorpbox to put my files on my computer and all files a d documents created in the last six months have disappea...
thanks very much for you response.
they dont appear in thrash bin. sont you think they might be somewhere on the computer?
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hey @daniel Guijarro, let's jump right into this!
Did you enable our Backup feature at any point, while using your Dropbox account? If so, is the feature still enabled?
Also, would you mind walking me through the steps that you followed when moving your files out of Dropbox? Did you simply move your content outside of your Dropbox folder, to a different path on your device or something different?
Let me know more!
Thanks very much Megan,
No did not enable Backup feature.
The steps I follwed were the follwing:
1- I dragged my dropbox folder into my documents folder.
2- I got a message saying something like: If you move out of dropbox you cannot share files with others and be available in other devices" cant remerber the exact words
3- only syncronised files were copied into my computer.. the rest did not appear.. they d not appear in my trash bin..
thanks very much I am a bit desperate
Did you simply move your content outside of your Dropbox folder, to a different path on your device or something different?
Yes, I moved out the content from dropbox folder to documents folder in my mac.
thanks again.. if you can guide me further ..
