Happened to my mother and her friend a week ago. Only they lost all their files. They weren't permanently unrecoverable, thankfully, only deleted.
The trust my mother had in dropbox is now gone, and probably will remain so for the next couple years.
The trust my mother had in dropbox is now gone, and probably will remain so for the next couple years.
The command
find /home/keith/Dropbox -size 0
A personal work around is a simple bash script to copy Dropbox directory to another with the date as directory name, I'm running this once a day or so. Then my normal old-school backup onto an external drive will catch each day's dropbox.
Surprising how convenient I found automatic file sync, and how quickly I came to trust the dropbox daemon running in the background on 3 computers!