Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
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Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
#2you have to periodically login or good bye data
Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
#3Why does anyone continue to use Dropbox?
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#5Dropbox 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.
Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
#6Dropbox 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 started to treat "the cloud" differently. Nowadays I don't even know what's still in my Dropbox ...
Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
#7Been receiving those for years now, as I fully moved to Google Drive + 2 local copies.
The weird part of it:
- I'll never actively delete that account because even if it's way out of date, it's still an additional copy. Beyond laziness, I've counter incentives to not do it.
- GDPR directives would probably allow them to delete the account after X years of inactivity, it clearly hasn't happened. Or there's still some of my scripts logging in somewhere even as it doesn't sync anything ? Or they didn't flag me as EU user and are now lost on what they can do ?
Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
#8Dropbox 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.
Pfff... I think you can easily replicate that UX with an ftp server and CVS. :D
Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
#9Dropbox 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.
Pfff... I think you can easily replicate that UX with an ftp server and CVS. :D
Reading about his experience, you can replicate the Dropbox behavior with an rm -rf :D ftp and CVS would be actually functional...
Re: Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
#10Dropbox is insane, they expect this to motivate me to give them money? Ha! I took everything off of them years and years ago.