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I removed Dropbox from my Windows computer as soon as they started to include a minifilter driver with new versions. https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9249 https
by Grom_PE 10y ago
I removed Dropbox from my Windows computer as soon as they started to include a minifilter driver with new versions.
https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9249 https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9249
I don't believe a program needs to integrate so deeply into the system just to sync the files.
- rincebrain 10y agoFWIW, I would presume the reason that was added would be some shortcoming(s) in [1], since I doubt they wrote a minifilter driver just for kicks. (It might have been that some programs were doing IO that avoided triggering the change notification, and a sufficiently large {number of customers,customer} complained about it.) I don't work for Dropbox, and I haven't used the API, but as I said, I really doubt they added a (signed) driver requirement lightly. [1] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364417%28VS.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364417%28VS.85%29...
- Grom_PE 10y agoThey made it primarily to support the functionality called "Project Infinite": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571813