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And this is where having the API actually support, say, monitoring only items in a single directory would be good.
Well there is, but it's unreliable in certain edge cases. At least not reliable enough for a backup solution.
Also, what edge cases?
Quote: "A simple protocol can give us an idea of whether data is being sent to Dropbox: 1. Create a large-ish file (1MB) outside of the Dropbox folder 2. Monitor the network usage of the Dropbox application to see if it sends enough data that it could be that file 3. Repeat with many different files, etc. Doing exactly that, Dropbox only sent a few hundred KB after “accessing” the target file. Seems unlikely that Dro…
To be fair, I added this section after several people pointed this out, so you may not have seen it.
A desirable capability would be on-demand upload or download of any file on the clients system. For that you would need the entire filetree+checksums so, imo, that's what it's syncing.
As an aside, I've been using Sparkleshare (built on GIT and SSH) lately. It's pretty good, and sucks up less battery on my MBP than the Dropbox client (maybe because it's not watching every file in the system!) And not only is it open source, but you can see a log of all the git commands and fix things manually if necessary. My only lament is that it doesn't work that well over the intermittent connections. It'd be n…
Read their TOS and compare it to Google Drive's TOS. The insane rights the Google TOS grants to Google are why it costs ~ 1/2 as much. It is also an indicator that Dropbox is less shady. They don't grant themselves rights to do anything with your data outside of the normal things you need them to do to offer the dropbox service for your use. Unlike Google, which could for instance, use your personal photos of your ki…
We all know that the reason Google is running face recognition and photo recognition software on your all your files is to cross reference it with databases of paedophilia and terrorism !
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11012008/Paedophi...
Read their TOS and compare it to Google Drive's TOS. The insane rights the Google TOS grants to Google are why it costs ~ 1/2 as much. It is also an indicator that Dropbox is less shady. They don't grant themselves rights to do anything with your data outside of the normal things you need them to do to offer the dropbox service for your use. Unlike Google, which could for instance, use your personal photos of your ki…
You claim that Google could use personal photos of my kid eating ice cream to sell advertising? This seems directly against their terms of service found at http://www.google.com/policies/terms/ . > Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours. Do you ha…
I don't need proof. You need to go read the TOS I mentioned already.
Read their TOS and compare it to Google Drive's TOS. The insane rights the Google TOS grants to Google are why it costs ~ 1/2 as much. It is also an indicator that Dropbox is less shady. They don't grant themselves rights to do anything with your data outside of the normal things you need them to do to offer the dropbox service for your use. Unlike Google, which could for instance, use your personal photos of your ki…
I'm aware of nothing in Google's terms which isn't in the terms of every other user-generated-content service that has lawyers on staff. In order to make copies (distributed storage, network traffic, etc.) and show copies to people -- including you, or anyone you choose to share a file or post with -- they basically have to have a license from you, or they're potentially on the wrong side of copyright law.
Read their TOS and compare it to Google Drive's TOS. The insane rights the Google TOS grants to Google are why it costs ~ 1/2 as much. It is also an indicator that Dropbox is less shady. They don't grant themselves rights to do anything with your data outside of the normal things you need them to do to offer the dropbox service for your use. Unlike Google, which could for instance, use your personal photos of your ki…
I think you're misunderstanding the TOS. I do not think Google is subsidizing their storage costs by abusing your private photos.