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Charlie Windsor's avatar
Charlie Windsor
Helpful | Level 7
3 months ago

Rewind fails to work and requires support assistance

Hi ...

 

Please see the screen shot below of Rewind failing to work correctly. This fault can be replicated using different PC's OS's and Browsers.

It would seem that the root cause for us is an Account or Folders having a lot of historic high data activity after the restore date.  (e.g  A User wants to restore data from the 22nd July but rewind fails because there was a lot of Data transfer activity in their account on the 8th August).

 

In our case we have a 1 Year rewind option  but we can't go back further than three weeks because of historic file changes, plus we do not have 24/7 support.

 

How do we fix this ? 

 

(I can supply a capture video of Rewind failing) 

 

 

  • I am having a similar problem. This is very annoying. When I started using Dropbox ca. a decade ago, it was top notch. Since then these kinds of problems have reared their ugly head for the past few years when I've used Rewind. Fortunately, I have some hard disk backups (usually), so I can recover things. It seems DropBox is mainly good for synching multiple computers, but not for actually saving copies of time-stamped, accessible directories. I've stopped telling my students to use it, and just go with OneDrive or GoogleDrive.

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

    Hey Charlie Windsor - thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Have you by any chance tried getting in contact with our support team for further assistance on this as the error you're getting suggests? 

     

    If you did, you can share your ticket ID with us so that we can look it up in our system too.

     

    Thanks!

    • Charlie Windsor's avatar
      Charlie Windsor
      Helpful | Level 7

      Hi @Walter  ... Thanks for the reply ...  No support ticket for this particular issue as of yet... 

       

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

        In that case, I'd suggest reaching out to our support team directly as they'd be better equipped to help you with account specific information.

         

        Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to add in the meantime Charlie Windsor 

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