You are not the owner of that file but someone else who shared the file or folder with you revoked the sharing access.

The file you are searching for hasn’t got synced due to desktop or mobile client issues.You may have accidentally deleted a file or folder while not paying attention.You may have deleted the file and forgot about it.The following are some of the major reasons. There are several reasons why some Dropbox files go missing in a personal (consumer) account. This isn’t an uncommon problem, and usually, Dropbox isn’t at fault for it in most cases. Many Dropbox users often find their files or folders go missing. If you are successful in cleaning it up, I would recommend setting up a new clean Obsidian Sync remote vault (and eventually deleting the old remote vault) to avoid contaminating the data.How to Recover Dropbox Files that Were Missing

I would recommend pausing Dropbox & Obsidian Sync immediately, then try to navigate the folder using your system file explorer and try to clean the mess up. You can, however, still have a backup copy of your vault in Dropbox by only using Dropbox on your primary device (in this case, your mac) and have Obsidian Sync keeps everything in sync, so as to avoid the conflicts between two sync services.Īs for file recovery, Dropbox should have a 30-day version history like WhiteNoise mentioned that should make it possible to recover any files that was deleted, but I suspect your files aren’t really deleted they’re just completely shadowed by the weird folder structure that was generated when the two sync solution conflicted on a parent/child nested vault structure. In that case, race conditions could cause file corruption, duplication, or worst case… well unknown issues like this one. In general, we don’t encourage using two sync providers to sync the same set of files across the same set of devices. Hmmmm is there any chance you configured the Obsidian vaults to be in a parent folder on one of your devices when using Obsidian Sync, and then when Obsidian Sync tried to replicate the folder structure, Dropbox picked it up and synced it across, causing infinite recursion?

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