Several files deleted without any action from me or any record of their deletion

SenB

I am having a similar issue to that in a recent post - I discovered this morning that two files saved yesterday were missing from my Dropbox folder, both as viewed through Windows Explorer and as shown on the Dropbox website. However, when I checked "recent documents" in my word processing program, I was able to open them, and when I checked their location, it was showing as that same folder.


I followed the advice in the recent post and others, and looked at the Events page, but there is no record of these two files being deleted.


It would be good to have some reassurance that this will not happen again, and that it has not been happening to other files without my knowledge. I am working on a large project with 100s of separately saved documents, and I sometimes leave a chapter for several months so would not necessarily notice one of these deletions within a 30-day period.


Thank you!

SenB

Thanks very much for your reply @Jay - it looks like I may have made a complete mistake, I'm sorry. When I go to Recent Documents in my word processor (LibreOffice Writer) and hover over the files, it shows that I apparently actually saved them to a folder on my hard drive. I thought, because Microsoft Word does this (I think), that I could check the folder location by going to Save As (i.e. that Save As would start with the option of the current folder), and that did indeed start at the folder they were supposed to be in. But it looks like Writer works differently and starts from the folder you're working in with other open files.

Thank you for the time you took to reply and sorry for the misleading post! In any case, it's a relief to discover that I do not (I hope) have disappearing files.