When you are sharing a Dropbox folder with a lot of different people at one point someone will eventually delete the shared folder through his/her file manager instead of dropbox, resulting in having half of the files in the subdirectories being gone.
As this got so annoying for my use case I wrote a little app to be able to restore these type of things easily. Simply specify the time range (max 24 hours) when the files were deleted and the app will recursively restore all the files from that directory.
Interested? Give it a try here: http://dropbox.wol.ph/
Source can be found here: https://github.com/WoLpH/dropbox-time-machine/
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