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Unless the Dropbox service sends a command to your Dropbox client to delete the files as part of its "death". If somebody other than the people who made and ru
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
Unless the Dropbox service sends a command to your Dropbox client to delete the files as part of its "death".
If somebody other than the people who made and run Dropbox were responsible for the action of shutting it down, this might happen accidentally. Or if the service was hacked.
It's still a good idea to have your own local backups.
- antidaily 15y agoYikes, I hadn't thought of that. Time to read the terms of service.
- jessriedel 15y agoThis is true for any service, cloud or not, that has permission to write to your hard drive. This ability has nothing to do with storage, and this risk is much, much less likely than simple bankruptcy or whatever.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoYou misunderstand my point. Not backing up files on your hard drive because they're in Dropbox is not safe. Dropbox has built in functionality to delete those files from your hard drive. If any one of your clients or your account is compromised, or the Dropbox service is hacked, these files could disappear. Hence why you need backups. Also, if the FBI starts pulling servers in a random order to shut Dropbox down, are you confident that wont cause Dropbox's systems to incorrectly send delete commands to your client just before the service disappears? If you are, you shouldn't be. Not after the "log in to any account without a password" issue of last year.