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sparrsh
New member | Level 2
11 months ago

How to restore files from ".dropbox.cache" > "old_files"

I deleted lot of my important data recently by misunderstanding of the app. Now I want to recover these files which are not available in "Deleted Files" section of website. but luckily I saw my files...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    11 months ago
    sparrsh wrote:

    What are these types of files called? Can I restore it? Online or with help of any application?

    There's no function to restore files from cache. You'd have to do it manually, assuming the files are complete. If they are the complete files, just rename them and include a proper file extension for whatever the file type is.

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Rich
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11 months ago
sparrsh wrote:

What are these types of files called? Can I restore it? Online or with help of any application?

There's no function to restore files from cache. You'd have to do it manually, assuming the files are complete. If they are the complete files, just rename them and include a proper file extension for whatever the file type is.

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    sparrsh
    New member | Level 2
    11 months ago
    Yes I just did that. That is only way. Thanks man!!

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