Hi Smuggers, Dropbox disaster not isolated to me, it seems. > > https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Installation-and-desktop-app/Dropbox-randomly-deleted-thousands-of-files-for-no-apparent/td-p/17751 > > <https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Installation-and-desktop-app/Dropbox-randomly-deleted-thousands-of-files-for-no-apparent/td-p/17751> > > Dropbox randomly deleted thousands of files for no apparent reason (multiple > times) > "Since I have started using dropbox, I have had at least 4 instances where I > have had catastrophic deleting of files ans folders for no apparent reason. > It just happened to me again. I was working on my laptop and I noticed that > the little dropbox icon on the bottom right of my windows 8 PC said that > thousands of files were updated. I knew I didn't update them so I looked into > it. I noticed hundreds of my folders were missing and files were deleted. > > I have no idea how or why this is happening. I was able to go in and recover > them, but I dont know if I caught all of them as you have to manual search > for each file and click recover. > > I run my entire business on dropbox and have 7 employees connected to it. I > am 100% certain the employees did not delete these files. Even if they wanted > to they could not have done it that fast. It seems to pick a random folder or > two an delete random files. Not the entire folder, just random folders within > folders and random files within those folders. > > Help! How can i stop this from happening. I think I may nee to find another > cloud solution?? I do backup my files every week or so on a hard drive, but > if I lost a full weeks or more worth of work, I would be sunk." >
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