And then last night, I went to my folder with my paid for images that I use for presentations when speaking at conferences. Have you tried to figure out at the drop of a hat what mission critical data is gone?Īll the financials were still there as far as I could tell, and the user manuals, training material and schedules I spent years putting together. It doesn’t tell you what’s being deleted or from where, only that “files” were deleted. I started to trawl through my data to try and figure out what was being deleted.

I frantically tried to get hold of them, but no call was forthcoming.

“Don’t call us, we’ll call you type of thing”. There is very conveniently, no email address to contact any Dropbox staff, you have to fill in an online form and they will get back to you. I tried to click anything to stop the deletion, but there is no such facility. I checked all the users connected to my account, none of them had rights, nor had were they signed on in that time frame. After I just spent 4 days uploading 15GB of data! Needless to say, I dropped what I was doing to see what was going on as I was not deleting any files. You get an icon on your desktop that tells you the activity on Dropbox, and last week I got about 20 pop ups in the space of a few minutes telling me that thousands of files were successfully deleted. One that deletes your files at random and then tries to tell you it’s your fault. If you’ve never heard of Dropbox, it’s an online storage facility for you to do backups and share docs with multiple devices and users.

What is dropbox good for