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ShubhamPaul
8 months agoNew member | Level 2
Restoring files that synced above the 2GB limit, that a friend added when the account had no space.
Actually, in one of my relative's PC, he used to work everything inside his dropbox folder. He used to add any files/folders, edit the same inside the dropbox folder itself without maintaining any co...
- 8 months ago
No, they are not recoverable at all via Dropbox I'm afraid - because he was over his 2GB limit Dropbox didnt sync them. As the messages would have said on his machine and via email all syncing stops once you hit the limit.
Simply put Dropbox doesnt know they exist - they were never ever uploaded to Dropbox. Same with any changes he made to files that were sync'd but done after he ran out of space.
Mark
8 months agoSuper User II
No, they are not recoverable at all via Dropbox I'm afraid - because he was over his 2GB limit Dropbox didnt sync them. As the messages would have said on his machine and via email all syncing stops once you hit the limit.
Simply put Dropbox doesnt know they exist - they were never ever uploaded to Dropbox. Same with any changes he made to files that were sync'd but done after he ran out of space.
- ShubhamPaul8 months agoNew member | Level 2
Maybe it is not recoverable via or from dropbox but by any other means is it possible? Because I think any digital copy once created inside a computer, even though it is permanently deleted, is never lost...isn't it?
- Mark8 months agoSuper User II
You could look at some recovery tools which may scan the computer, but, they are not very reliable once a device is re-formatted. The formatting process is designed to be destructive and wipe a drive.
As for tools you could use I'd suggest a google, but, in the mean time the relative must stop using the computer completely - the more its used the less likely it is to be recoverable.
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