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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by owlieowl on Friday September 09, 2016 @05:19PM (#12466129)
I just removed Dropbox. Web client from here on.
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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by rocky1138 on Friday September 09, 2016 @10:06PM (#12467300)
If you need real-time file syncing, you could run a lightweight Linux install in VirtualBox and install Dropbox there. Dropbox on Linux runs in userspace (not as root) and so it's much more secure. Share the file between VirtualBox/Linux and your Mac, and you're done.
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