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BDub
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4 years ago

Disk errors causing Dropbox to delete files

Hi community,   I recently noticed some unexpected 'deleted files' activity on my account. Initially I assumed it was user error, that I’d mistakenly deleted these files somehow. So I restored...
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dyk1
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Hi, I had the exactly same problem. An internal hard drive of PC, synced with dropbox, failed a couple days ago and I released that most of my dropbox contents have been erased in other PC with sync. Very scary! I think it needs to be check how this can be happening. 

 

 

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Walter
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2 years ago

Hey dyk1, sorry to hear about this.

 

Can you please take a look at your events page and let us know how exactly those deletions are logged there? 

 

Any additional information you can share about the incident would be much appreciated. 

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