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Someone deleted a lot of files and I need to know who it was.

Someone deleted a lot of files and I need to know who it was.

linvel
New member | Level 2

Someone deleted over 20,000 files of my account and I can´t idenitfy who it is. If possible, I´d like to track the device activity, I need to know when it logged in and other information that helps me identify the responsible. 

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Mark
Super User II

ALL of the information available is at www.dropbox.com/events

 

You can sometimes get the device that did the deletion by restoring the files, going to one of them and clicking on 'view version history' and that will show things. 

 

www.dropbox.com/account shows devices logged in as well as active web pages as well. 

 

One of the BIGGEST causes of this is people just accidentally dragging and dropping a file from Dropbox to something like the desktop. 


 


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