Box deleted 90% of my files...

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March 21, 2024 23:38
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Apparently my Box Desktop app (MAC) got corrupted and had to get restarted. In the process, my storage went from ~47.5GB to 4.8GB. How do I get my files back?

For some reason I'm not allowed to open a ticket. Very annoying.

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Winston E Lee

March 24, 2024 04:35
Does Box support actually monitor these discussions?
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Winston E Lee

March 24, 2024 04:37
Thinking about slamming Box on Social Media, since they don't seem to care about customers.
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Rona

March 25, 2024 15:25

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Hi Winston,

Welcome to Box Community and glad to assist!

Does your unsynced items from your local Box Drive folder disappeared? If so, please be informed that we don't guarantee content recovery for unsynced files. We can only recover items that has been deleted from box.com in a given time period. And to give you a quick overview please feel free to visit the article, "Managing Trash."

Thanks for posting!
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Winston E Lee

March 25, 2024 21:52
OK, thanks for responding. Now I have the following situation:

I have a home folder titled "MyBox" containing ~6gb of data

I have a folder in Trash titled "MyBox" containing ~47gb of data

My storage limit is 50gb.

When I click restore on the Trash screen I get this unhelpful message:

"There was a problem restoring all items in the trash. Please try again or refresh the page."

This despite the fact that after merging these two I would certainly be using less than 50gb due to duplication over-write.

My question now is: if I delete the home folder titled "MyBox" (~6gb), will I still have access to the folder in Trash titled "MyBox" (~47gb)?

Or will it be over-written and thus lost?

Or do you have any better ideas?

Inquiring minds want to know.
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