Rikonthebarge Helpful | Level 6

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  • Hi Renata The team at Dropbox did work hard to try to recover my files but sadly they were unable to recover files more than a few months old. If you did this reboot recently, I would advise that you get in touch with them immediately to give you the best chance of recovering as much as possible. Best of luck. Rik
  • Dear Daphne Thank you for your patience on this issue. Almost every folder in my dropbox now shows up as Empty. One or two folders do have the odd file in them but these, when I click them, do not open but instead I'm presented with two sub folders labelled Data and Metadata; these folders are also empty. The drop down…
  • Hi Jay Sadly, the drop down menu does say that the download is complete. I have just checked again but those files remain stubbornly absent. Thank you for your interest Rik
  • Dear Daphne Thank you fro your interest. I can get info on the file that downloaded back to my Mac (this confirms that the file is empty). Hopefully I cab attach a screenshot of the info panel of that. However, I cannot get info on the files that appear in my Dropbox (there is no right click on a Mac. Command "I" doesn't…
  • To Clarify; I clicked on the file showing on my events and it started to download to the "Downloads" folder on my Mac. But then it immediately put up the error message saying it was empty. I pasted the entire error message into my last message here but here is a screenshot. R
  • Hi Lusil I went back into my events and clicked on a random file that was listed as added in december. It headed to my downloads file but then immediately flagged with this message "The file “Statement_15Jul2019.pdf” could not be opened because it is empty." I went back a bit further into the events list. Two files picked…
  • Hi Nazrie Thanks for your thoughts. Up until my laptop started misbehaving I was using the files in my dropbox often (not all of them but enough to know that the files have certainly been there. Unless I am being totally stupid (which is not beyond the bounds of possibility), they are not there now. Other possibly useful…
  • Hi Lusil Yes, ther certainly apper to be empty. Well, not QUITE empty; there are a few random files that all apper with the Skype logo beside them; they do not open. Thanks for your interest. I hope this helps. Rik
  • Hi Mark Thank you for the speedy response. I downloaded Dropbox onto my Mac last night (probably aboput 20 hours ago). I confess I didn't actually check inside the folders until this morning. I have had a look on Dropbox Home and so far as I can see, the folders there are still empty. Matters at my end are not helped by a…