Drop Box and photo's: I was just wondering if anyone else has lost all the folders and files that you keep on Drop Box. I just went there and I notice that every thing I had in Drop...

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I was just wondering if anyone else has lost all the folders and files that you keep on Drop Box. I just went there and I notice that every thing I had in Drop Box has gone to digital heaven. Glad I don't relay on as a back up only as a sharing device.

SonyA580 Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer

This is what scares me about "The Cloud", etc. I lost all of my old scanned slides I had posted on Worldisround.com a few months back. No warning - one day they were there and the next, the site didn't exist. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

SonyA580 wrote:

This is what scares me about "The Cloud", etc. I lost all of my old scanned slides I had posted on Worldisround.com a few months back. No warning - one day they were there and the next, the site didn't exist. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

Yea, you have no control over it. My problem is at my age, I don't remember what I had on the Cloud. LOL.... Oh well, nothing lost, nothing gained.

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

I haven't noticed anything disappearing from my Dropbox. I don't use it as backup, only for sharing with friends & relatives. I delete old folders to make room for new ones.

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Bill Houghton wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone else has lost all the folders and files that you keep on Drop Box. I just went there and I notice that every thing I had in Drop Box has gone to digital heaven. Glad I don't relay on as a back up only as a sharing device.

I'm at a loss how to respond; Dropbox is one of my safety nets and have never lost a file! How did it happen?

Dave in SD

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I went to Drop Box to post some files to me sister. I have four five folders that keep on Drop Box. They were gone. Vaporized to cloud heaven. Just a note, I'm a 2 gig user. So I haven't a right complain. I was more confused then anything else.

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

I have had users delete files from their local folders not realizing they were synced with drop box/google drive and then found all their online files were gone but never seen any reports of them just disappearing on their own.

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

The only thing that I keep on Dropbox are copies of files that I may want to access from work. The originals and backups are still stored on my computer and external drives at home. I simply don't trust cloud storage enough to keep any original files there.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I had to my check the Google drive on my tablet, there was nothing that shouldn't be. LOL.

There was nothing in Drop Box that l couldn't replace. Dropbox can't be beat when it comes to shareing. The biggest fault I've seen so far is whenever you move files into it. It doesn't leave a copy. So I have been copying and pasting them to Dropbox. When you delete them in Dropbox, there gone forever.

CaptainC Loc: Colorado, south of Denver

If someone else with access drags the images out of Dropbox, they are GONE. The person who took them has them.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

CaptainC wrote:

If someone else with access drags the images out of Dropbox, they are GONE. The person who took them has them.

I had five different folders, all gone. Note also that a link to folder can't delete the folder or files, it grants them only access to down load. I have no shared folders, I only shared links.

I have a sneaky suspicion it was done threw my tablet. I had just reset to the factory settings, and have it set to back up and restore from Google Drive. DropBox was on my tablet. I checked all the files on the tablet but there not there.

On Edit: http://www.dropbox.com/help/167

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Bill Houghton wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone else has lost all the folders and files that you keep on Drop Box. I just went there and I notice that every thing I had in Drop Box has gone to digital heaven. Glad I don't relay on as a back up only as a sharing device.

Been using it for 4 years - never had a problem. Perhaps the files were deleted from one of the shared devices. In any case, you can go to the dropbox.com website, open your folder in the web browser, and recover (undelete) your images.

Zone-System-Grandpa Loc: Springfield, Ohio

Bill Houghton wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone else has lost all the folders and files that you keep on Drop Box. I just went there and I notice that every thing I had in Drop Box has gone to digital heaven. Glad I don't relay on as a back up only as a sharing device.

Are you making reference to the drop box in cloud, or are you referring to the drop box that is offered in Windows software such as Windows 7 with service pack 1 ?

I know that with my Dell XPS 8700 Special Edition PC which has Windows 7, a drop box is inclusive. Is this the drop box that you are referring to or are you talking about Cloud ?

If you have a drop box with the software that had come with your PC, it would be recommended that you use it and then, make certain that you back up your files with the back up options that are inclusive with several of the post processing software programs.

Best of luck and hope that you don't lose any more of your files in the future ! I'd imagine that it is shocking to lose some of those one of a kind images ! :cry:

~Doug~

redpepper Loc: Central NY

I had a newly shared folder disappear and looked into the function where you can see who viewd and downloaded your folder last. Sometimes people you share with actually move the folder on you rather than copying it. You can use the recover feature in Dropbox to get it back but there's no protection against this happening.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bill Houghton wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone else has lost all the folders and files that you keep on Drop Box. I just went there and I notice that every thing I had in Drop Box has gone to digital heaven. Glad I don't relay on as a back up only as a sharing device.

That's why they call it The Cloud. It comes and goes. :D I lost a whole bunch on Flickr. Even the account disappeared without a trace.