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ned666
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Thousands of random files suddenly deleted

  Deleted files are completely random, game files/saves, images, videos, project files. The date matches the time when I was online at my PC. But there wasn't even a popup asking me if I ...
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Mark
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2 years ago

The external drive is 99.999% almost certainly the reason. 

 

Dropbox cannot delete files without being told to do so. However, and this is the important reason Dropbox says to not use it with external drives, if the drive connects late or disconnects and Dropbox is running it can (not always, just sometimes) see it as a deletion of the files/data and as such replicates that. 

 

Dropbox has really improved error detection on this but it isnt perfect - as you found out. 

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