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Recover deleted folder dropbox5/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They can no longer be recovered after that point. After the 30-day mark, the deleted files are marked for deletion in our system and are purged from our servers. This is strangely at odds with Dropbox retention policy:īy default, Dropbox saves deleted and previous versions of files for 30 days in case you want to recover them. In most cases we saw users discovered files they deleted around 2010 – 2011, but some go back even to 2009. Has this happened to anyone else ? I assume there’s nothing to worry about but the whole thing just seemed somewhat surreal initially to be honest. I checked the event viewer and it tells me that I added those 2 folders 47 minutes ago ( about the time when I started dropbox after I installed it ). Took me a couple of minutes to realize they’re a couple of folders with project files from about 6-7 years ago, so extremely old. They are so old I initially didn’t even recognize them. When I checked it out as it was close to finishing I found 2 extra folders in there. I installed dropbox earlier tonight and I allowed it to do a full sync with my local folder. The stories look very similar to each other. A few days ago some Dropbox users experienced something rather unusual – the files and folders they deleted years ago reappeared in Dropbox synchronised folders.ĭozens of users reported this strange phenomenon on Dropbox forums. ![]()
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