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Thuy Pham wrote:1. Investigate what happened You need to check your devices for ransomware and viruses etc. Thats the only way this can happen. Publishing emails, like you have here, is a way that hackers can gain access to accounts - becuase they then know which emails are genuine active ones. Never, ever post them online…

Have you tried Dropbox rewind? https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/rewind 

Can you elaborate a bit on what exactly you want to achieve? You could use Dropbox links and put them in cells to open other files in Dropbox on its website BUT these would not open a file locally on your machine - i.e. they wouldnt open in say \Documents\Frank's Files. 

As a work around you could stop using Selective Sync completely and use 'Online Only Folders' which stay visible on the local machine, but, crucially dont use up space on the disk. 

Mike B59 wrote: It seems the common thread is the new users to dropbox are having the issue. Do they have enough quota to add things? Remember shared folders use up everybodys quota. Are they able to view the files online at http://www.dropbox.com/home themselves?

I'm not aware of any migration tools, therefore, you will need to just start a new backup and let it all upload and sync as normal 

What does http://www.dropbox.com/plan say? Have you also checked http://www.dropbox.com/backups

Calion wrote:I got tons of free space when Dropbox was new Dropbox doesnt remove free space given unless its time limited (such as some of the promos with laptops etc.) so any space you got then you should still have now. 

somersetbp wrote:What are other Dropbox users going to do now? If I'm honest I tried it, and hated it, so went to 1Password ages and ages ago - way before this offer. That system is how Dropbox Password should have been - the autofill, password suggestions, watch tower etc. are just amazing. The best bit is, like all Apple…

Susan D.11 wrote:Sounds like the plan I need doesn't really exist. Thank you, Jay. I think it would actually @"Susan D.11" The plan is intended to be used by multiple people - hence needing 3 licences. However, you CAN use it with just one. The 15TB of data is a pooled plan so you could use it all and none of the other 2.…

Susan D.11 wrote:Is that true? No it isnt, sorry. Each account is totally and utterly independent. Susan D.11 wrote:If a basic personal account were linked, would that account then have end-to-end encryption as well? Again, no, because they are completely separate entities. Susan D.11 wrote:Would I ultimately have to…

sphereofnoform wrote:I'll be keeping an eye on it to ensure I don't exceed the limit Note there is no tracking available via Dropbox to do this... so you cant really do it I'm afraid. Or if you hide it via bit.ly or similar and they land on Dropbox if they go more than once direct to Dropbox you'd not see the bandwidth…

Dropbox probably wont work for you here I'm afraid as you are very likely to get banned with that volume of data being used: https://help.dropbox.com/share/banned-links Dropbox isnt a content distribution system I'm afraid and as such does have very strict limits on it. The only plan which would probably work would be a…

Dropbox hasnt removed paper? You can access it via https://www.dropbox.com/paper 

R4jefs wrote:I always go back every few months to look at them etc How long ago did you last log on?

Does it have any illegal characters in it? https://help.dropbox.com/organize/file-names 

Yes it is - totally free 😃

Professor Twang wrote:I didn't use Dropbox Plus PAID plan for just over a year Did you pay for the account, or, did you stop paying? If you DIDNT pay and it was over a year the files are not recoverable once deleted I am afraid - as the emails say. If you DID pay have you used the Card Lookup tool to check what account was…

There is no way to stop them on the desktop/website but you can disable the notifications via email here: https://www.dropbox.com/account/notifications 

You should be able to do this via the website: https://help.dropbox.com/organize/how-to-manage-dropbox-backup#To-manage-your-backups-with-the-updated-Dropbox-Backup 

JoRo2 wrote:I am only interested in what dropbox encourages people to do and if you can turn them off! Ive answered it. You cannot disable that option. The button is still visible. You cannot make it go away. 

JoRo2 wrote:can you also disable visible share links as well as visible download links. that was my question. No. The share button will still be visible, BUT, all it literally does is copy the link they've already used to the clipboard.

No. You can disable download. But you cannot disable or limit what people do with that link. So if you sent a link to me there is nothing, at all, you could do to stop me sending it to Rich, as an example. 

JoRo2 wrote:i want to know if in dropbox you can disable download ability and resharing ability Simply put, no. You can disable download but cannot disable sharing of link or resharing if it was downloaded in some way. The plans are the ones the help article talk about at the top:…

JoRo2 wrote:It doesn't mention anything about disabling the ability to reshare for example Ah, apologies, I thought you meant to disable download and then reshare that file. It simply isnt possible - on any service if we are going to be honest. Its dead easy for a person to just share the link to others, or, even if it was…

You can see all here: https://help.dropbox.com/share/set-link-permissions What I would say, however, is careful as no system is infallible. 

You'll need to log a ticket at http://www.dropbox.com/support for help. Or, if a free user hopefully somebody here sees it Monday. https://help.dropbox.com/share/banned-links 

Gabriela Borges wrote:Is there anything I can do to recover those files? No. Unfortunately not. Once an account is deactivated, the data is permanently removed. 

Mary V.2 wrote:I have a brand new laptop and when I right-click on any of my Windows folders, I do not get "Quick Actions" or "Sync." I get a bunch of others, none of which is sync. I used to be able to sync things in the old DropBox. Dropbox has only ever sync'd files and folders that are directly stored within the…

You need to check the email that you will have got on the 13th of June telling you about the deletion. That will tell you when they are due to be deleted. Alternatively you can moge the files out of the directory they are in and in to one of your own. This usually happens because the folder they are in is owned by somebody…