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Lettuce1
3 months agoExplorer | Level 4
My existing Dropbox account disappeared along with all of my files.
Hello I experienced a really strange thing today- Dropbox disappeared from all my devices bar my iPhone where it says ‘signing out’. When I try to sign in from the web my account has gone from a plus...
Lettuce1
Explorer | Level 4
Hi Nancy
Thankyou for your reply. No it’s the same and only email address on the account and the same as the one in my emails. I have several emails to that address from Dropbox including the upgrade to Dropbox plus.
Thanks
Thankyou for your reply. No it’s the same and only email address on the account and the same as the one in my emails. I have several emails to that address from Dropbox including the upgrade to Dropbox plus.
Thanks
Nancy
3 months agoDropbox Staff
Thanks for clarifying that. Was your Dropbox account previously part of a Dropbox team? If yes, is it possible your admin deleted it to remove you from team member?
If you check your recent Dropbox emails, do you see something that could explain the situation?
- Lettuce13 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Hi- no not part of a team. And nothing in recent dropbox emails to explain it. I have found on my computers dropbox folders (one called 'Dropbox(old)' and another simply 'Dropbox'. These have all my files on there although unfortunately mostly unreadable as they were online only. So something or someone has done something to the account and the files have been put on my machines. Unfortunately I'm completely stuck on trying to access the files that weren't online only and it seems dropbox thinks my account is only a day old and empty, and a basic package.
- Lettuce13 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Hi Nancy
I remember now that a file appeared in my dropbox that I didn't recognise. I thought my wife may have put it there, so I opened it but quickly thought better of it and closed then deleted it. It was a few hours after that when I found dropbox was deleted from all my devices. I later found it had added all my files (although 90% are read only so empty) to my devices in a folder.
When I tried logging back in it wouldn't give me the option to put a password in with my existing email address so I tried the only option it gave me which was of signing up. I put in my existing password and same email address as before. I now seem to have an empty and basic account ( it was previously a plus account and I have emails to prove the upgrade etc). The worst thing is I now have no way of contacting support as they believe I have a basic account, so at the moment I am completely stuck and have lost a lot of valuable info which I thought was backed up for 30 days with my plus account.
- Lettuce13 months agoExplorer | Level 4
I had a file appeared in my dropbox that I didn't recognise. I thought my wife may have put it there, so I opened it but quickly thought better of it and closed then deleted it. It was a few hours after that when I found dropbox was deleted from all my devices. I later found it had added all my files (although 90% are read only so empty) to my devices in a folder.
When I tried logging back in it wouldn't give me the option to put a password in with my existing email address so I tried the only option it gave me which was of signing up. I put in my existing password and same email address as before. I now seem to have an empty and basic account ( it was previously a plus account and I have emails to prove the upgrade etc).
I now have no way of contacting support as they believe I have a basic account, so at the moment I am completely stuck and have lost a lot of valuable info which I thought was backed up for 30 days with my plus account.
Does anyone know how I can contact support on this?
- Megan3 months agoDropbox Staff
Hey Lettuce1, let me also jump in here!
Let's try one more thing. Since you had an upgraded account, you can try using our self-serve look-up tool in order to check if the email address behind the charge is the same one you used on your end, when accessing your account.
Want to give it a go?
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