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JoeAltmaier
on July 29, 2014
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How a bug in Dropbox permanently deleted my 8000 p...
My buddy Tom says "If its not on your current computer, its lost". Imagine when Dropbox closes one day (as every company ultimately does), how much will be lost.
therealmocker
on July 29, 2014
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Since all the files are sync'ed to the computer, nothing would be lost unless selective sync was enabled.
rockdoe
on July 29, 2014
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A comparable bug would be that when the server goes away (Dropbox closes), the client starts deleting all local files.
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