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martinlk
10 months agoNew member | Level 2
Strange actions regarding deleted files.
Recently I noticed an important file was missing from my dropbox account. I checked more closely and I saw that over 40,000 files had beeen deleted. Fortunately I didn't lose anything because I coul...
- 10 months ago
martinlk wrote:
How can I see precisely what/who/how the files were deleted? It is unnerving.
Check your Events page, and check the version history for one of the recovered files.
Rich
Super User II
martinlk wrote:
How can I see precisely what/who/how the files were deleted? It is unnerving.
Check your Events page, and check the version history for one of the recovered files.
martinlk
10 months agoNew member | Level 2
Well this is certainly the problem. I think I found out how this happened, It wasn't nefarious but a little strange consequence: I logged into an old computer that I hadn't used in a long time, where I had previously deleted the Dropbox folder contents from a different user profile... I guess it happily treated that as me wanting to delete 47,000 files!
Anyway, thanks for the help. I couldn't find a link to any sort of history or log file (or events), so this was helpful.
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