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Re:Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT by flashman on Sunday November 13, 2016 @11:15PM (#12947524)
I use IFTTT to email me every time a file is deleted from my Dropbox, after a nasty incident where several gigabytes of baby photos were silently deleted. Luckily I noticed soon enough to restore them.

I'm not sure why it happened or whether it could happen again, and Dropbox doesn't have a "this folder is write only" option, and I rarely delete things from Dropbox, so it's nice to have.

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Re:Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT by nacs on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:58AM (#12950154)
If you have something that valuable, consider making regular backups of the things (stored on Dropbox) to another location (Zip and send to Amazon S3 monthly for example).

I wouldn't rely on just Dropbox even with the IFTTT check.

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Re:Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT by Angostura on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:10AM (#12948275)
Why not just set the folder rights so that things can't be deleted?
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