I rarely use the Dropbox interface for anything other than file requests or recovering deleted versions.ĭropbox has a commenting feature, but it's more like a social media type of commenting, where you can add stickers and reactions. I personally recommend using Dropbox only as file storage and backup. I haven't used the dropbox/Acrobat workspace in the same way that you have, but I am very leery of using dropbox commenting. This Dropbox/Adobe partnership either needs a major overhaul or just needs to be scrapped. Losing hours of work, especially while on a tight deadline, is a major setback. Please help me recover my work.Īgain - I have a learning disability and this work is so, so hard for me. I've opened the file on my desktop in Adobe Acrobat Pro and the comments and highlighting aren't there. I've gone through my version history on the dropbox website and there are no versions because Adobe didn't sync to Dropbox even once during three hours of work.

I have opened the file in multiple programs hoping to find it. Is all of my highlighting and writing on the PDF really nowhere? I have scoured the tablet for the document and cannot find it. It is not in 'recent' and I cannot find it in any temporary folders anywhere.ĭid the shoddy 'save' 'functionality' which apparently requires one hit the 'back' button and return to dropbox - rather than syncing automatically, warning me, or, you know, having a SAVE button just cause me to lose an entire afternoon's work?

Once that file was open in Acrobat, I could not go back to the edited version of my first PDF. I think I went to my downloads folder and opened it accidentally before I could move the file to my dropbox. I have a learning disability - this work isn't easy for me.Īfter finishing with that article I opened the next one. I spent THREE HOURS highlighting and making comments on an academic article. I opened the file in Acrobat via the editing icon in Dropbox on my tablet. I was using Dropbox and Adobe Acrobat on Android.

Recover dropbox files