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musialri
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

Sync history shows randomly deleted files. Dropbox.com deleted files tab show no deleted files. HELP

My desktops toolbar sync history shows a large amount of files and folders were recently deleted and are now missing from my desktops Dropbox folder. I did not manually delete or move any of these fi...
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    musialri
    7 months ago

    Just figured this out. I went to Admin Console > Content  and and found the missing folders and files. I had to reshare the missing folder with dropbox and it popped back up in my desktop files.

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Rich
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musialri wrote:

I logged onto dropbox.com to search the deleted files and there is no history of these files being deleted on dropbox.com.

What does your Events page show?

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musialri
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

Just figured this out. I went to Admin Console > Content  and and found the missing folders and files. I had to reshare the missing folder with dropbox and it popped back up in my desktop files.

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