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The software wasn't quite up to scratch. It was OK if you only had one computer, and so DropBox was a pure backup system. It wasn't always good if you had two
by simonblack 5y ago
The software wasn't quite up to scratch.
It was OK if you only had one computer, and so DropBox was a pure backup system.
It wasn't always good if you had two computers and used DropBox as a syncronisation system. (I had cases where instead of adding new files to the second computer, it took those new files away from the first computer.)
I ended up making my own internet-facing file server.
- ozzythecat 5y ago> It wasn't always good if you had two computers and used DropBox as a syncronisation system. (I had cases where instead of adding new files to the second computer, it took those new files away from the first computer.) Was this a bug or a last write wins implementation?
- simonblack 5y agoWho knows? The effective result was that instead of having two copies of a file, I had zero copies of that file. The biggest bummer of that was that, at that time, I was living overseas and had a very restrictive quota of internet bandwidth - 2 gigabytes per month - so fixing the problem was very difficult.