Further research shows that the folder that had missing files was inside another folder. I have a folder called volunteer work on my main directory. It was there but most of the files I put inside it were missing. A search found a folder called volunteer work inside another folder. All my files seem to be there, even the files in the volunteer folder in the main director (ie, some files have been duplicated).
Curiouser and curiouser. On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
