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smishra
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Syncing Issues

I need urgent help - My files in the cloud overwrote the files on my hard drive (which were more current) during the sync process.  My files on my hard drive are gone.  What can I do to get them back?  I hope someone see this!

 

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    Rich
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    smishra wrote:

    My files in the cloud overwrote the files on my hard drive (which were more current) during the sync process.  My files on my hard drive are gone.  What can I do to get them back?


    If the current version of the files weren't in Dropbox, then there's no way to recover them using Dropbox. You'd need to rely on your own backups.

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