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I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I’d assume.
I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.
But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn’t copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.
I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won’t connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.
I’m 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I’m not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won’t break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.
But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.
Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time



I cancelled my Dropbox subscription like over 5 years ago, with about 1TB of data in there. They’re still sending me emails saying they’re going to delete my data but they haven’t yet lol. I’m not using it but it’s funny to see they still have it all.
Yeah, your data is taken hostage. When cancelling the subscription it’s a good idea to delete everything manually before the account expires. Even if you can’t guarantee Dropbox haven’t just flagged the files as deleted, it signals intention. I did this when migrating to pCloud and haven’t received any reminders from Dropbox.