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Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files

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Post by dunham »

max-m wrote: post #6
JonChesterfield wrote: post #5

Dropbox synced with an empty folder, i.e. deleted everything. I didn't notice for over 30 days which was the cutoff for their historical files. Thus my easy off-site copy which I was previously very attached to effectively deleted everything. I did not go back.

Something similar happened to me once. I still don't know what exactly happened, but in Dropbox some files were deleted, I still had my local copy, but then Dropbox synced the file deletions and I didn't notice. Only when it was too late did I notice that files were gone and their support was unable to help. I think I managed to recover some files with one of the NTFS "undelete" tools, but that was probably the day I…

I was clearing out Dropbox when I moved away from it, and it _wouldn't_ let me delete my copy of `tex.web`, because it thought it was some sort of special dropbox file. (It was the source to TeX.)

Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files

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Post by arenaninja »

I think the author's premise is flawed even if the post comes off as good natured fun :)

I doubt they will host your content graveyard for free in perpetuity. I've seen Google get rid of more for less and given the horror stories and lack of recourse with the big G I would not trust them to do more than be my email provider (and I'm working on kicking that habit too).

That said it's pretty clear Dropbox policy changed and quoting a forum response from 6 years ago seems flimsy, maybe even disingenuous. That it's still the top response on Google surely says more about Google?

Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files

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Post by nimih »

laluser wrote: post #13

What do you expect to happen? Continue to host your data for free? This is such an odd thing to write about.

I think the author may not be entirely serious, and may even have been attempting to achieve some level of humor or personal catharsis with their writing.

Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files

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Post by layman51 »

rnd0 wrote: post #10

Dropbox is insane, they expect this to motivate me to give them money? Ha! I took everything off of them years and years ago.

I will note that Dropbox has changed so much from when I first learned of their service. They seem very focused on providing solutions to businesses now compared to back then when it seemed more like a product for individual users.

Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files

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Post by hangonhn »

layman51 wrote: post #15
rnd0 wrote: post #10

Dropbox is insane, they expect this to motivate me to give them money? Ha! I took everything off of them years and years ago.

I will note that Dropbox has changed so much from when I first learned of their service. They seem very focused on providing solutions to businesses now compared to back then when it seemed more like a product for individual users.

Because the margin on enterprises is so much higher. Most enterprises will pay money to make a problem go away whereas consumers will look for alternatives.

Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files

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Post by tomjakubowski »

dunham wrote: post #11
max-m wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something similar happened to me once. I still don't know what exactly happened, but in Dropbox some files were deleted, I still had my local copy, but then Dropbox synced the file deletions and I didn't notice. Only when it was too late did I notice that files were gone and their support was unable to help. I think I managed to recover some files with one of the NTFS "undelete" tools, but that was probably the day I…

I was clearing out Dropbox when I moved away from it, and it _wouldn't_ let me delete my copy of `tex.web`, because it thought it was some sort of special dropbox file. (It was the source to TeX.)

That's too good. Did you have to rename the file to get Dropbox to delete it?
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