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I keep ALL of my data in Dropbox and basically treat all of my computers as one single computer. I'm a little surprised how well this works given two things:
by furyofantares 3y ago
I keep ALL of my data in Dropbox and basically treat all of my computers as one single computer.
I'm a little surprised how well this works given two things:
1) I use both macOS and Windows - I was especially worried about projects that take dependencies from package managers but haven't run into any conflicts here
2) I keep almost everything in local git repos inside dropbox. I was really worried I'd end up with fucked up repos if I end up working on one computer when it hasn't fully sync'd yet from the other one, but again, haven't run into any issues here
I really love this setup. It works amazingly well for me. But I'm also quite concerned that in the last years Dropbox keeps trying to get me to keep files in the cloud and not sync'd locally, and Apple now wants to push Dropbox to a new model which also prioritizes this. But worse, it's not backwards compatible, there's some types of file which will no longer sync and I don't actually know if I have any of them. And no LAN sync, which I suspect is part of why I've had no conflict issues with my setup.
Most of the incompatibilities/changed behavior seem like edge cases but the list is long and very scary for someone so dependent on dropbox:
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changes https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected...
So I guess I too am in the market for a dead simple "just do an amazing job of keeping this filesystem the same across devices" product.