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I use IFTTT to email me every time a file is deleted from my Dropbox, after a nasty incident where several gigabytes of baby photos were silently deleted. Lucki

I use IFTTT to email me every time a file is deleted from my Dropbox, after a nasty incident where several gigabytes of baby photos were silently deleted. Luckily I noticed soon enough to restore them. I'm not sure why it happened or whether it could happen again, and Dropbox doesn't have a "this folder is write only" option, and I rarely delete things from Dropbox, so it's nice to have.

Angostura 10y ago
Why not just set the folder rights so that things can't be deleted?
nacs 10y ago
If you have something that valuable, consider making regular backups of the things (stored on Dropbox) to another location (Zip and send to Amazon S3 monthly for example). I wouldn't rely on just Dropbox even with the IFTTT check.