At least some version of the Dropbox service have a recovery feature that lets you undelete recently deleted files. I hope yours does!
The "Deleted Files" link at Dropbox.com for my version is on the Files page. David W. On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 8:31:23 AM UTC-4, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > Hello! > > Today I discovered by chance that over 400 text-files of my > notes-Dropbox-folder were gone. > > I had this before (as mentioned in this thread > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bbedit/GtQDEOGncf8> first and > then again in this one > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bbedit/Acvu26jvGZA> in BBEdit > Talk), so I started analyzing what's happened. > > They were all deleted today. > > The only thing I did today was to write a new file in this folder with the > iOS app "*Taskmator*" using my iPhone. The file was there. Over 400 other > not anymore. > > The notes-folder contains text-files (TXT, MD, TASKPAPER) and is shared > only between my iMac and my iPhone. > > Fortunately enough I've learned a couple of lessons last time, so I had a > couple of recovery mechanisms in place: > > - my text-notes now live on my Mac a folder named TXT > - once in a while I synch manually this TXT-folder to the notes-folder > in Drobpox using the DeltaWalker app for file- and folder-comparation (I > still want to look at ChronSynch for this…) > - I have a Git-repository for the TXT-folder… > - … and another one for the notes-folder in Dropbox (there I > discovered that the files were missing). After copying the new file I've > created with the iPhone on my iMac I've discarded the local changes in > Tower and everything was fine again. > > I don't know for sure, but I suspect Dropbox (and not Taskmator) to be the > culprit. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > Vlad > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
