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Google migration deleted unnamed file
Looking at the "Google Migration Report.csv" file I see entries for a file that could not be converted and so it was deleted. The problem is that the "Source path" column is empty, so I have no way to know which file it was. Has anyone encountered this, and/or does anyone know how to tell which file this was?
For reference, this is how the line reads in the CSV file (after quite a few tries to convert):
2023-06-01 17:01:26,,epzY3WHVhEsAAAAAAAOZfw,Error,Microsoft Office File,,,Conversion failed,File ineligible for migration,Deleted file.
Hi Megan, this relates to the recent change where Google files hosted in Dropbox were replaced by shortcuts. After that was done, I got a message on the Dropbox website telling me to review the results of the migration, and the file "Google Migration Report.csv" was placed in my Dropbox. This was all done automatically by Dropbox.
The line I referenced in my original post came from that CSV file. It tells me that one of my files was deleted because it couldn't be migrated, but there's no file name to refer to. There are other lines in that file that do have a file name under the "Source path" column, but not this one. This is my problem. I'd like to know which file was deleted and, if it was an important file, whether there's a way to recover it.
I've the same issue. I hope someone can explain why DB is deleting files that they cannot convert to Office formats.
