Protect Yourself From Tech Support Scams
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July 29, 2020
Protect Yourself From Tech Support Scams
Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary
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If that is just some of your files, where exactly were those files located?
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If that is all your files:
Before you do anything else:
Restart (not shut down) your PC 4 times, each time let your PC get to the Desktop before the next restart, this will fix this issue a lot of the time . ..
The files were located in 2 Dropbox synced directories. About half of the files were deleted after the update but fortunately they were not deleted from the Dropbox server for some reason.
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That is very strange, a Windows update should not certainly not touch your data in a DropBox synced folder, I am really glad that you have not lost those files . .. .
