Shared/missing files

Question

I have shared a folder and now the files have been "moved" by the person I shared the folder with.  Can someone you share a folder with move your files elsewhere?  Now, my folder is empty and the files are gone.  When I look at the activity of the folder it shows that I shared the folder and that each file was "moved" by the person I shared it with.

How can I get my files back? and Can someone really just take your files from your folder that you shared with them?

Thank you.

Mark · Accepted Answer

Hi @barredondo

Thats how shares work I'm afraid - the other people can move them around at will. However, moving out of the shared folder does delete for everybody. People need to be told this when starting to use shares as they'll often want to move the files to a different directory not realising it'll delete for everybody else.

As long as it was deleted within 30 days you can restore via https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/recover-deleted-files-folders or ask the person to put them back 🙂