Help – all Dropbox files gone

Re:Help – all Dropbox files gone by gokce on Sunday April 07, 2013 @04:24PM (#5508589)

since dropbox files are also stored locally it is possible that the files are still on your harddisk somewhere but unlinked. if that's the case I suggest you turn off your computer right away and see a professional.

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Re:Help – all Dropbox files gone by Adlai on Sunday April 07, 2013 @04:33PM (#5508633)

If you have some technical savvy, try http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/ for ext3/4 filesystems, http://ntfsundelete.com/ for NTFS.

If you're using something other than than one of those two filesystems, you should probably know how to handle this yourself.

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Re:Help – all Dropbox files gone by Samuel_Michon on Sunday April 07, 2013 @04:38PM (#5508656)

You left out HFS+, OS X's file system.

However, Dropbox on OS X has a cache file at ~/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache – so if OP uses a Mac, chances are he won't need an undelete utility.

More info: https://www.dropbox.com/help/296/en

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