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LuC13
New member | Level 2
7 days ago

See full list of deleted files?

Hi there!

when looking at deleted files, Dropbox only shows me this type of summary:

However, I do not see a way to list all those files, which I want to do, to make sense of what got deleted there, without having to restore it.

Is there a way to list all those files that were deleted there?

Thanks
LuC

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    LuC13
    New member | Level 2
    6 days ago

    Thanks Mark! 

    Yes, but that list is way too long and full of irrelevant details to find anything useful in there (apparently, moving a file via the web interface shows up there as an addition and a deletion event, for each file individually...).

    That's a pity, because that now means I'll have to manually track down what has and what hasn't been deleted... And the list of those files is clearly available to Dropbox in the background, so it should not be difficult to just show it as a list. But I guess the developers want to protect us from too much information :-( 

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    6 days ago
    LuC13 wrote:

    (apparently, moving a file via the web interface shows up there as an addition and a deletion event, for each file individually...).

    Ah, I'd not realised it still did that on web. It used to do it via a computer with connected devices but has been changed :( 

    If you have an idea of what folder it is in could you go to that folder and click on 'Show Deleted Items' ?

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