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ShubhamPaul
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

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...
  • Mark's avatar
    7 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. 

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