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mdsioufi
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

restored files are missing

Hi there,   I have deleted my work file from drop box by mistake , when i tried to restore it it restored a fraction of the files that were there originally. many files were not restored    And t...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    mdsioufi wrote:

    No in fact i didn't have enough quota , but the files on my computers that were not synchronised were disappeared completely

    If the files weren't synchronized to your Dropbox account, then there would be no way for Dropbox to recover them. Dropbox can only recover files that were synced to your account.

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Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
2 years ago

What is www.dropbox.com/events showing? Had the files initially been uploaded to Dropbox (i.e. did you have enough quota?)? 

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