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mitchellvii
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I'm freaking out. ALL of my graphics files have been deleted!

I have always kept my graphics files that I use for my podcast in a folder named "Team."

 

I was working and a dropbox notification popped up saying that "9845 of my dropbox files have been deleted."

 

I was like what the heck.  I haven't deleted anything.  So I do some looking around and I see that my Team folder with ALL of my graphics is just GONE.  Also, there is no record of it being deleted to roll things back or undelete.  This is a DISASTER.  What happened and what can be done to fix it?

 

WHY DID DROPBOX DELETE MY FILES???!!!

  • mitchellvii's avatar
    mitchellvii
    2 years ago

    Ok solved it.  Seems for some reason Dropbox put all the folders that were deleted into one folder and I was able to restore it from there.  Whew, crisis averted!

  • mitchellvii's avatar
    mitchellvii
    New member | Level 2

    I can't believe this.  There is no record on Dropbox of these files being deleted.  I can't restore them because according to dropbox they never existed!

    • mitchellvii's avatar
      mitchellvii
      New member | Level 2

      Ok solved it.  Seems for some reason Dropbox put all the folders that were deleted into one folder and I was able to restore it from there.  Whew, crisis averted!

    • Marlene 's avatar
      Marlene
      Explorer | Level 4

      hi, same happened to me about four weeks ago. Something like 25000 files were about to be deleted, I could watch it while it happened. It affected about 5 folders out of 8. I was freaking out, too. I immediately startet a chat with dropbox helpdesk and they brought all files back. They needed the permission to look into nearly each folder. But I never got an explenation why it happened.

      As per today I have another problem: none of my files in den vault folder can be opened, everytime an error message appears. I have towait until tomorror because help is only offered from Monday to Friday.

      I wish you all the luck that they can help you!

      • Nancy's avatar
        Nancy
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Sorry to hear this, marlene

         

        Can you send me a screenshot of the error you keep receiving?

         

        Also, if you’re currently in touch with our support team about this, feel free to send me your ticket number here.

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