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Sawyer1971
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

All files gone

For a decade or more I've used Dropbox as a place where I store files from jobs I've worked on. These are files I don't work on anymore, but use to look things up. Last week I wanted to check somethi...
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  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    2 years ago

    Hi Sawyer1971, is it possible that you have two Dropbox accounts, and that you opened a new account by mistake? 

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Sawyer1971
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

You say Dropbox cannot delete the files, but I lost all my files (totally everything) from my dropbox. I certainly didn't delete it. It was my history of jobs I do as a freelancer. Dropbox is not able to restore it, at least in my case. Make sure you make back-ups!

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