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Happened to my mother and her friend a week ago. Only they lost all their files. They weren't permanently unrecoverable, thankfully, only deleted. The trust my
by intellegacy 14y ago
Happened to my mother and her friend a week ago. Only they lost all their files. They weren't permanently unrecoverable, thankfully, only deleted.
The trust my mother had in dropbox is now gone, and probably will remain so for the next couple years.
- keithpeter 14y agoAs an end user myself on Linux, I was worried to read this. I keep teaching materials in the Dropbox folder so only a small file size, but they are important. As mentioned below at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704176 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704176 I have developed the bad habit of editing files directly in Dropbox. I may need to revisit this and use Dropbox as a sync only, edit elsewhere and copy over. The command find /home/keith/Dropbox -size 0 shows only cache files for deleted files, and some backup files that I saved while empty (I know those should be zero bytes). A personal work around is a simple bash script to copy Dropbox directory to another with the date as directory name, I'm running this once a day or so. Then my normal old-school backup onto an external drive will catch each day's dropbox. Surprising how convenient I found automatic file sync, and how quickly I came to trust the dropbox daemon running in the background on 3 computers!