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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Vitoreba on 2024-01-18 17:03:36+00:00.
Well... Looks like I have broken a part of their terms and they decided to deactivate my account with more than 12 years of data there...
My Dropbox account is from something near 2011, I had always used then as backup only to avoid losing data, but, something like 3 or 4 weeks ago, I decided that "If I use this service for more than 10 years and anything bad never happened before, then it should be fine put all my data on just online mode".
Well... Murphy has activated I think and then they decided that anything I made with my account is reason for then to deactivate my account and kidnap all my data out of blue WITHOUT ANY WARNING...
I have important stuff there, job files, scitific research I made on the university, documents I need for the Brazilian annual taxes which is coming in a couple of months, childhood and family photos... All of that were ONLY IN DROPBOX for the last couple of weeks... Worst decision I made, I know... ButI'm pretty sure Brasilian laws are against this kind of arbitrary behavior such as deactivate my account and forbid me to download my data, specially wihout any warnings...
Well... This post has two reasons:-First: just know that... Don't trust in Dropbox for keeping your files, they can simple be the reason for you to lose it ;)And above anything else... Don't trust a single way to keep your data.-Second one: Anyone have any advice of what can I do to retrieve my files?