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Abby10
New member | Level 2
9 days ago

My pictures are missing from a shared folder. How can I retrieve them?

Hi my pictures are missing in a shared folder nothing has been deleted. Please advise how I can retrieve it.

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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    9 days ago

    What does www.dropbox.com/events show?

     

    Note as they are in a shared folder if the person who uploaded them has deleted and permanently deleted them they wont show on that link. Also, if they were deleted more than your revision window (or 6 months) they also wont appear. 

    • Abby101's avatar
      Abby101
      New member | Level 2
      8 days ago

      Hi Mark I retrieved them from my husband's dropbox luckily i had them stored there too.

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