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If the Dropbox desktop application is running and syncing normally, then any files in the Dropbox folder, or in other folders monitored using the Dropbox Backup feature, would be deleted from the site when they are deleted from Finder.
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Hey @Eleven01, thanks for your post.
May I ask, are you using the Dropbox desktop app?
And when you deleted these local files, did you delete them from within the Dropbox folder?
If that's the case, it's expected for the files to be deleted both locally and from your Dropbox account, as the desktop app is syncing these deletions.
When you add/edit/delete files from the Dropbox folder, the app is there to sync these changes to your account online.
If you'd like to restore your files from Dropbox, you can follow the steps here.
Let me know if you have any more questions or if I misunderstood the situation.
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Hi @Eleven01, just to clarify once more, when you say you deleted them from Finder, were the files in the Dropbox folder?
Was the Dropbox desktop application running at the same time?
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If the Dropbox desktop application is running and syncing normally, then any files in the Dropbox folder, or in other folders monitored using the Dropbox Backup feature, would be deleted from the site when they are deleted from Finder.
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There aren't really any settings to adjust basically. If a file in located and deleted from the Dropbox folder, then they will also be deleted from the site when the desktop app syncs the changes.
Could you clarify exactly what you're trying to achieve? Do you want deleted files in your Dropbox folder to not be deleted from the site?
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Hey @Eleven01, if you delete a file from your Dropbox folder in Finder or you delete a file from a desktop folder that you're backed up to Dropbox with our Backup feature, then that deletion will sync to your Dropbox account, as long as the Dropbox application is running on your computer.
If you wish to keep using the Dropbox app, to sync files to your Dropbox, then there's no way to stop the deletions from syncing.
Otherwise, you can unlink (sign out) the computer from your Dropbox, stop using the Dropbox app and only use Dropbox from the website.
That way, when you delete a file from the Dropbox folder in Finder, the deletion won't sync to your Dropbox account.
I hope this clarifies things!
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