January 25th 2017 By Allie Coyne
Blames metadata bug.
Dropbox has admitted to "inadvertently" keeping user files and folders stored on its servers for as much as seven years, blaming a bug that prevented the files from being fully deleted.
Dropbox users took to support forums over recent weeks to complain that files they had deleted between two and seven years ago had reappeared on their devices, and were unable to be removed.
"I installed Dropbox earlier tonight and I allowed it to do a full sync with my local folder. When I checked it out as it was close to finishing I found 2 extra folders in there," one user wrote.
"They are so old I initially didn't even recognise them. Took me a couple of minutes to realise they're a couple of folders with project files from about 6-7 years ago, so extremely old."
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