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LabelsRus's avatar
LabelsRus
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Searching within deleted files

How do I search by file name in deleted files? When I use the search bar it searches not-deleted files, and as far as I can tell all I can do is sort deleted files by date range. I have no clue what ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    6 years ago
    Hi there, depending on your plan you could have recovery periods from 30 days to 120 days, and potentially longer if you purchased Extended Version History before the new plans came out.
     
    If you use the search bar, the deleted files will appear at the bottom of the list in grey, so you can check those grey files for the one you’re looking for.
     
    Hope this info helps!
Bartek Expo Construct's avatar
Bartek Expo Construct
New member | Level 2

I am having the same problem. Today I tried to find one of my deleted files and I had to go through dozens of pages. A searchbox to search within deleted files would be great. I see you had this idea in 2019... Now it's 2022 and it still has not been implemented. The same for EVENTS. I spent an hour browsing manually through all my events to find the deleted contents I needed. 

Walter's avatar
Walter
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
3 years ago
Hey Bartek Expo Construct, thanks for joining the discussion here and sharing your thoughts on this.

I just wanted to mention that you can post your suggestion for a search-box in the deleted files page and/or the events page in our Share an idea area.

This way other users will be able to upvote it to show their interest and/or provide their own feedback on this too.
  • emclusk's avatar
    emclusk
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    Posting issues so far for so long has not provided a way to search deleted files. Support thus far has not been helpful for those of us lookiong to find files deleted long ago (I have Packrat gradfathered). Dropbox: are you trying to push users out?

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
      2 years ago

      Hey emclusk, thank you for the nudge and your feedback here.

       

      Are you trying to restore something deleted a long time ago? And if so, have you tried contacting our support team about this?

       

      If you want, I can open a ticket for you, in order to look further into this.

      • emclusk's avatar
        emclusk
        Explorer | Level 4
        2 years ago

        Yes, but the assumption seems to be that I know the name of the file. More detailed and varied options need to be facing the user while in deleted files at least as much as the default search allows. It is maddening to be sent away from deleted files to conduct a serious and easy search.

         

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