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Documents in files disappear totally from the device.

Every two or three weeks many of the files are deleted automatically without a manual process for deleting, and I can’t find them anymore. And when I try searching them in recently deleted items it shows that

“ Recently deleted items maybe permanently deleted by your storage provider”, though I save them on my iPad not in the iCloud.

iPad, iPadOS 17

Posted on Sep 22, 2024 8:02 PM

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Sep 23, 2024 1:23 AM in response to RNusername9

Have you enabled iCloud Drive perhaps?

If you have a Mac...


In Disk Utility>View, select Show all Devices, highlight the top left entry.


Run Disk First Aid on all items in the left panel, from top down.

You can use Drive DX to possibly get a better view of Drive health…

https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx


Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?


We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...

Using EtreCheck - Apple Community


EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info. Give it Full Disk Access.

https://www.etrecheck.com/


Give etrecheck Full Disk Access before running.


Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…

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Documents in files disappear totally from the device.

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