On Mar 28, 2014, at 17:25 , Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I knew I shouldn't have said anything the other day. A few minutes ago I went > to dropbox to update a file and discovered a bunch of my files are no longer > there. Unbelievable. Fortunately I have Time Machine and the files are there. > I understand now why dropbox also keeps copies of the files on my hardrive. > > Strange- but the files have been missing since the last backup on March 21st. > There are tens of files missing. Any one know what causes this??? Dropbox has a help page about missing files... https://www.dropbox.com/help/969/en ... and they claim that it cannot be a problem with Dropbox. No surprise there. There are a couple of things listed other than catastrophes, such as antivirus software or files being locked by backup software. Perhaps there can be a problem if a file is being edited directly in Dropbox, though this would defeat its purpose to a great extent. FWIW, I have so little trust of cloud stuff that everything on the cloud has a normal location somewhere on my hard drive. This is bad, naturally, because file redundancy is the straight road to insanity and frustration. But... at least I know I have the files safely away somewhere. Bill the redundant Bill
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