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I've had dropbox lose files inside bundles. We were abusing dropbox with hundreds of thousands of small files, so I'd be very careful about putting your entire
by sjs 16y ago
I've had dropbox lose files inside bundles. We were abusing dropbox with hundreds of thousands of small files, so I'd be very careful about putting your entire $HOME folder in there since it's a pretty similar scenario. My personal rule is that only copies of data go into dropbox. Nothing important ever "lives" in dropbox.
- rufo 16y agoWow, this is literally the first time I've ever heard of Dropbox actively losing data. Not that this is especially helpful, but were the files at least available inside the Dropbox web UI? For what it's worth, I've been using the 0.7x series with several small-to-medium-sized Git repositories (over a quarter-million files/directories) with no ill effects to speak of beyond Dropbox taking a while to initialize. Of course the repositories themselves have several copies on the various developer machines and GitHub, and I keep a Time Machine volume handy as a backup.
- sjs 16y agoWe were abusing Dropbox beyond belief at that company. We had a single account w/ 50GB and there were about 5 of us sharing the single account, updating it simultaneously. Dropbox was simply never meant for that. Now that I think about it, $HOME in Dropbox might be ok since (presumably) there'd only be one person using it at any given time.
- antigua 16y agoYou can undelete files through the website. https://www.dropbox.com/help/11 https://www.dropbox.com/help/11
- pavs 16y agoI had similar problems, only to later realize that I closed my computer on one end before it finished syncing. Also some older dropbox clients was a bit buggy. I haven't had this problem for more than a year now. Using it across Linux, windows and Mac clients, even stored Virtual machine instances on dropbox and loaded them from virtual-box on all machines.