I am on my 5th Mac product but you guys are in another sphere in use and knowledge. I read a lot of discussion about Cloud. I finally went to Find and up pops a folder full of files. Most are multiples of the same file. Does this make sense and is it okay to delete them? Thank you, Bernie
>________________________________ > From: Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> >To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers ><[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 5:37 PM >Subject: Re: [MacGroup] files missing from drop box > > >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 > > > >
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