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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by cma on Saturday September 10, 2016 @12:27AM (#12467687)
What do they need different from what time machine uses?
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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by tinus_hn on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:13AM (#12480374)
Time Machine needs to be able to ask which files changed when it is preparing to backup. Dropbox needs to be notified when a file changes so it can sync.
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