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Lazman1140
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Logged into my account and all my files are missing
I've had a drop box subscription for a few years and at renewal, December 1st, 2022, I upgraded to DropBox Plus. Last week I had a blue-screen issue on my Desktop and took it to a repairman. He saved...
Mark
Super User II
Raquel7 wrote:
Its seems the account has been deleted because i have a welcome message , but the thing is i´ve never did that! is there any way to recover my old account?
It isnt possible to recover a deleted account, but, my guess is that if you didn actually delete it you have accidentally logged in and set up a second account and your data will be on the 'old' one instead.
Raquel7
3 months agoExplorer | Level 3
But can you have two accounts with the same email address? i just have one adress, so that why i dont understand.
- Mark3 months agoSuper User II
Raquel7 wrote:
But can you have two accounts with the same email address? i just have one adress, so that why i dont understand.
No you cant. But, as Dropbox doesnt do any sort of checks on account set up it doesn't mean you used the right email initially....
Also if you use google, for example, they annoyingly allow any punctuation before the @ sign to be part of the same email, but, here it would be separate accounts. Same using gmail.com and googlemail.com - its all one at Gmail, but, 2 here (and everywhere else)!.
- Nancy3 months agoDropbox Staff
Raquel7, if you check your email address, do you see any other emails from Dropbox in the last couple of months? Anything at all before that welcome email you mentioned in your first post?
If not, and you have one email address indeed, I’m thinking about the possibility that the other Dropbox account was set up with an email address that had a typo, like Mark suggests above, as well.
- Raquel73 months agoExplorer | Level 3
In my email i have emails from dropbox before, when they notify about changes, then i have one "setting up" the new account and no more, because in the "new" account i have nothing. It is weird because i logg in with the google option so i dont even write the email.
- Nancy3 months agoDropbox Staff
Thanks for checking. Did you log in by inserting your email address at any given point, instead of using the “Sign in with Google” option?
- Raquel72 months agoExplorer | Level 3
I dont! thank you so much for answering me
- Raquel72 months agoExplorer | Level 3
I had it in my phone, but it signed out and when i entered again it appears empty!
I moved to a different country, could that be a reason why my account was reset?
- Nancy2 months agoDropbox Staff
That shouldn’t have affected your Dropbox account or the files on it.
At this point, I suggest getting in touch with our support team directly, so that they can look into this further.
Please follow these steps to log a ticket with them and then, send me your ticket number here. I’ll make sure to leave them an internal note, as well.
- Raquel72 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Thank you so much for your help. I can´t get in touch with support, bc when i get in the page you mentioned, it asks me to log in , and when i do it doesnt give me options 😞
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