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Lost access to the company files

  • June 22, 2026
  • 2 replies
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As co-administrator, I deleted a former employee from our account.  During this process, I received a message recommending that I save the files in the deleted account, which I did.  However, rather than adding the former employee files, the former employee files replaced all of the other files.  The other co-administrator still has access to all of the company folders, but I do not.  After contacting BOX and establishing a ticket number 4 days ago, I still have not received a solution to this issue.  Without access to these folders, I am completely shut down at work.

In addition, random files have been deleted over the past couple of days.  Although I have no access to these files, they are shown as deleted by me.  I was able to retrieve them from the trash, but something is very wrong.

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Rona Box
  • Community Manager
  • June 23, 2026

Hi ​@dsp2201

Welcome to Box Community, and we’ll assist in locating your missing files! 

 

It indicates that you have already collaborated with one of our team members, and please keep an eye out. Our member’s already working on your case and we will reach out to you as soon as possible. 

 

Thanks for posting, and we hope that it get sorted out very soon!


It sounds like there may have been an issue during the user deletion and content transfer process. If the transferred files replaced your existing content instead of being added alongside it, Box Support should investigate this as a potential account or ownership migration problem.