>I have copies of my files on my work machine, my laptop, my wife's laptop, my gaming machine, and ofcourse dropbox's servers itself. I could lose any one of th

>I have copies of my files on my work machine, my laptop, my wife's laptop, my gaming machine, and ofcourse dropbox's servers itself. I could lose any one of those without losing the bunch thanks to dropbox synching things. Read the story again. Jan had the same peace of mind you do, until a crash in the Dropbox client deleted ALL of his copies of the affected files. He only unsynced on one device, yet the Dropbox-stored copy, as well as copies he had on other devices, were gone forever, due to a client crash. Don't assume your files are safe just because they are synced to multiple devices; obviously that sync relationship can be disastrous when an unexpected bug rears its ugly head.