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Dropbox is software, and like any software, it has bugs. One of those bugs could easily result in "delete this file and then propagate the deletion to every cli

by deong 14y ago

Dropbox is software, and like any software, it has bugs. One of those bugs could easily result in "delete this file and then propagate the deletion to every client". Granted, Dropbox has some rudimentary versioning, so it's pretty likely that you'd be able to recover, but still, I wouldn't advise anyone to use Dropbox sync exclusively as a backup solution.

euroclydon 14y ago
Well said. Happens to me every couple of months, that I know of. Heck Dropbox might have just deleted a file from all my computers right now, how would I know? Last time it happened the deleted files didn't even show up in the Dropbox event log, but they did show up as deleted files. The only way I know it happens is when a build fails -- shame I don't build my documents. I wish I'd never started using Dropbox, but now I'm too busy to switch my workflow off of it.