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> a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago What was that? They cut your access because you logged from a dif
by benhurmarcel 6y ago
> a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago
What was that? They cut your access because you logged from a different IP?
- simonblack 6y agoIt was probably my fault in configuration, however the idea was to have a DropBox whereby I could put in files while travelling with my laptop and those files would be taken up with my home server. Except that it worked in reverse. My laptop was 'emptier' than the home server, so the home server's files were deleted to match the laptop. Hundreds of megabytes of files were destroyed before I managed to stop it. On top of that, I only had a 2 gig per month quota for internet access while travelling, and all the DropBox activity soon exhausted that in days. On later trips my own home server coped very well, with less overall unwanted activity.