No matter how tech savvy, no matter how clairvoyant you are, we’ve all deleted a file we didn’t mean to, or discovered we weren’t quite finished with something yet, right after we clear it out. But luckily, Dropbox has you covered. If you’ve ever found yourself looking around the Dropbox Community for tips and tricks on how to restore your deleted files, we have a few helpful hints below. Whether it’s restoring files and folders that have been full on deleted, or rolling back your progress, or even restoring a lot of stuff at once, you won’t be
Yes. Dropbox saves all your lost files or work for 30 days (or longer for Dropbox Professional and Business users). You don’t need any external recovery tools, or even help from IT, you can recover your files with a few clicks. It happens to all of us, so don’t worry!
On dropbox.com, navigate to the Deleted files page, select the recoverable files or folders you’d like to recoup, and click restore. Easy!
Even if you didn’t delete the whole file, but you made changes that need to be undone, just pull up your version history to undo changes and restore old versions of any file. No matter the file type, Dropbox saves version history for all your files.
If you have accidentally deleted more than a simple file or two, Dropbox Rewind might be the best thing for you. Dropbox Rewind works by reverting your folders or even your entire account back to a specific point in time in the last 30 days (or longer for Professional users)—restoring everything in your Dropbox account to what your file system looked like before your mishap. Note: Rewind is not available for Basic users, but you can still use the tips above.
Now, no matter what the file is, you can know that it isn’t lost to the ether right after you click delete.
Tell us about a time that you recovered a file and avoided a whole lot of trouble in the comments below 😃
